During this time Goro had been wandering around in the mines. He didn’t know the others had been caught, or that they had escaped, he was still looking for them. After he found Meki, they had become completely lost, wandering from cavern to cavern. Every passage they followed seemed to lead them into yet another long abandoned mining cavern, and some of the passages he followed just led to dead-ends where entire caverns had collapsed. Goro was becoming afraid that the ceiling above him would fall down on him as well. He was also afraid that his crystallite torch would run out of light, and he would be left wandering the old mines in the dark.

"We could be lost forever," Goro admitted to Meki. "We could be kilometers away from the main cavern by now."

"We could be lost forever," Meki repeated in an affectionate voice that made Goro smile...