The World of Demar

            I don’t know how it happened suddenly one moment I was walking in the woods of Colorado and the next moment I was somewhere else. As I looked around I found myself in a cave. What was most curious about the cave was that it was lit with lanterns on the sides of the wall and the floor was not dirt as I expected it was made out of stone. I walked along for maybe 30 minutes in breathless wonder the ceilings were sometimes so high the light of the torches didn’t reach it and sometimes it was so low I could almost touch it. In one place I came into a humongous cavern that plunged into unknown depths spanning across it was a great bridge.  I started to cross it and then suddenly started. I had heard I sound just one moment ago. I thought for a moment. Oh! Silly me it was the sound of water there must be an underground pool in the cave. I finished crossing the bridge and went on. Presently I saw a door in the tunnel wall. It was surprisingly small I stooped down and turned the knob and opened the door. I was surprised again behind the door was a room with stone seats and more doors leading to other rooms. Suddenly a small man with a beard came out of one of the doors and stared at me. I nearly fainted hear before me was a dwarf come out of fairy tales. He said something that I couldn’t understand and then tried again and he spoke my own language.
He said” what are you doing in my house” in a deep, rude voice.  I said” I am very sorry I did not know this was your house”. ‘’Well it is’’, grumbled the dwarf “who are you and what are you doing here”? I don’t know I was walking in the woods and suddenly I found myself hear. “That’s a bag a bones”, the dwarf said. The only way you could get hear is from the mountain pass and beyond their there ain’t no forest. “Well”, I faltered I guess I just don’t know how to explain it. Well you’ll have to come with me to the king. He will prove if you are guilty or not.
So we trudged on until we came to a drop of, but it wasn’t any ordinary drop off it was square and there was a wooden platform and a rope attached. We got on the platform and went down for a long time. At regular intervals we come to doorways in the side of the mountain. On the top of the doorways was some kind of runes. We finally hit the bottom. We got out and went into this tunnel lit with torches. We went along for half a day and rested at one of the many inns. The inns were built in the side of the tunnel. Several times throughout our journey we saw parties of dwarves traveling through the tunnel.
The second day we reached the kings mountain as the dwarf said it was. If I thought the last mountain was magnificent this was spectacular. The very walls were lined with every jewel you could think of. There were dozens of dwarves some guards others miners and others advisers of the king. The king’s palace was at the very top of the mountain and we used the same method of transportation as before. Ounce we got to the top we were questioned by the head dwarf guard. The dwarf said he was the warden of the bridge of mountain calamen. He showed the dwarf guard a medallion as proof and the dwarf let us go through. As we entered past the gate I saw that there were many more gates to go through.

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