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Xoch' sits up and casts his Thorn Whip like a grappling hook into the stone walls of the chute and heaves the canoe in and down into the hole, as the stern lifts the Goliath to the alcove ceiling and bangs the canoe against the groin vaults with a roughness that sends all the occupants into a frantic search for handholds. Duke holds onto his Kitty with a veracity unmatched. The Jaguar digs his claws into the wood.
The canoe slips into the crevasse. and wobbles down the chute. The chute is slick stone and only illuminated by Kon's axe. The rudder digs magically deep into the stone, but it is wild and free and sends the canoe careening left and right up the sides of the chute, forever correcting its parabolic motions, threatening the expulsion of the occupants.
There is neither cargo nor oars to fall out of the craft, but the party is made of flesh and does not want to fall between the rapidly falling great canoe and the stone chute, like a torqued mortar and pestle. The glyphs begin to glow bright hues as if angry.
Xoch' holds onto his seat at front, next to the excited Caine and steadfast Kon. The owl man darts his head left and right as only he can, as the craft starts to do a barrel roll and possibly smash into the stone chute walls as easily as a Maztica woman kneads masa balls in her hands. He looks back to his friends and with a moment of regret sees the danger but can do nothing to stop the canoe's accelerating descent.
The canoe takes the ramp and shoots forth into the next cave, which seems not to have limits. There is a faint glow of magma far below where the magma river must end its waterfall, but the distance is so great, that the canoe would never survive the fall.
The keel of the long canoe fires into empty space. The rudder no longer finds purchase in stone. The canoe begins its parabolic descent into nothingness.
I sit holding on tight but having the time of my life. I realize, however, my compadres aren't faring as well.
"Zoch, try telling the statue what to do, or maybe just think it."
Ahead, as the canoe begins to rocket, is the other side of the cavern. There are two passages that glow faintly yellow like empty eye sockets of a giant's skull seen from the inside. The canoe is flying straight for the stone brow between the two eyes that form stone tunnels in the sides of the cavern wall. The one on the left leads up to regain the elevation that the adventurers have lost in their descent into the crypt, and the other leads slightly down, as if going toward the desert that the village overlooked.
If the canoe is not directed, it will go into neither tunnel and will crash into the stone wall of the cavern to fall back in shards into the lava below.
Statute lets go of Xoch's hand and settles on the ground with a slight tilt on its keel a bare couple hundred feet from the Temple to Tezca.
Yes rest seems like a good idea, Storm. If you'd like my company retrieving Caine's magical item, I'm willing to do that first.