He turned around. Perhaps this was too much. Perhaps such trespass exceeded even his meager scruples. This was a sacred place and who was he to defile it?

Or was he merely afraid for his skin?

A rustle in the bushes disturbed his reverie.

The cave was located between two steep cliff walls. There were only two ways out of here - through the cave and through those bushes. He prayed the disturbance was merely some small animal and not something more... large.

RATE THIS BRANCH!