They stared up into the dark of the ceiling and thought about what they had just found.
"What a strange and fantastic place!" said Boyce.
"Have you noticed that this entire road, that runs to the floor of this mine, has been carved right out of the rock?" Lloyd was formulating a theory about the odd method of building such a place.
Boyce remained quiet, knowing Lloyd well-enough by now, to let him continue with his thoughts.
"They must've used lasers, like ours!" he continued. "How else could they make it's surface so flat and even all the way down?"
"I was thinking, Lloyd … wouldn't this great hole make an interesting city — like the Alugean library?"
They both were quiet for a moment, reflecting on Boyce's idea, until
Lloyd resumed.
"I'd wager that both places were made by the same people!"
The silence that came next lasted until morning when Boyce and Lloyd were snatched from their dream states by the shrill cawing of some crow on a boulder outside the mouth of the cave.
Bleary-eyed, the men got to their feet and stretched until they were fully awake, but still relaxed.