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The Threehundredandsixtieth
And just like his
LOUD lookalike, when the affluential Professor Bramble reached the
two intrepid explorers, who tried to explain the importance of
Lizzie's identification of the old quarry as the location of the
entrance to The Cavern, he continued to ROAR and BELLOW with no
amelioration arising from his very closeness to them: “HAVE YOU
TOUCHED ANYTHING?” and, aimed at Lizzie but heard by everyone
within three miles: “DESCRIBE WHAT YOU REMEMBER, DO YOU
REMEMBER
ANYTHING?” and she covered her ears, which was when Auntie Crist
slipped two sets of ear-plugs into one of Roxy's hands, with an
apology for not giving them to her sooner and explaining that
everyone else in the party was already protected, almost like a
having a mithridate for a poisoning; once they had inserted the
ear-plugs, Professor Bramble's voice sounded almost conversational,
although his face and his flailing arms indicated that he was still
declaiming to the world at large, and they both relaxed sufficiently
as to be able to answer him without feeling steamrollered, and Lizzie
described what she knew of the place which had been her only home and
which she had left just a few days ago; she spoke of the mouth of The
Cavern: “it is about so big,” she said, plotting out the
perimeter, “and there are steps leading down into the huge chamber,
where everyone eats, the women grind corn, and cook and do
everything, the men sit around and talk big, or go out for food,”
and she suddenly grinned, mischievously, “from the store under the
stones, which they think is their secret, only for men to know –
they aren't really hunters, it's like Roxy has told me of the places
you go for things, shopping; it isn't really used for anything else,
we don't sleep there or do private things,” and then she blushed,
and Roxy put a protective arm around her, in an effort to avoid any
kind of contretemps from distressing her and said: “they go outside
for the toilet, and they have private sleeping spaces further back in
a network of tunnels;” and Professor Brambled beamed, and suddenly
looking like an avuncular uncle, shouted, rather facetiously, Roxy
thought: “SO THE
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