The Caves of Steel

Treasure Squandered For many years I have built the great hoard of wealth, and for many years mere men have tried to take it. My great, shining, epic, intimidating piles of wealth, towering to the top of this cavern I call home. The gleam of diamonds and silver coins, the metallic scent of iron, and the pillars of many precious items. There is one thing in which I treasure more than metal, my towering pile of skulls. The heads of my enemies, each thinking they were strong enough to destroy me,…

Let me go back to when it all began I jolted awake as a blood curdling howl pierced the bitter cold air. What started out as a seemingly relaxed hiking trip turned into 3 days of pure, adreneline driven, survival, when a pack of ravenous, blood-thirsty gray wolves started hunting me. I thought I had lost them when I jumped 3 and a half meters across an almost bottomless ravine going a mile in either direction. I don't know how they caught up to me, but now was not the time to think about…

melted a long time ago, the water rose to 1,000 feet deeper. What used to be beaches and islands are now just underwater structures. There is evidence proving that the water level used to be lower, 1,000 feet lower. They have discovered underwater caves with stalactites, icicle looking mineral formations formed by dripping water, hanging from the ceiling. They also found tachylyte on the ocean bottom, which is a type of lava that would have had to dry above water. That shows that the water has…

"Well, use your head, son," he said, smiling. Which really meant, "That's all I'm going to tell you," or "I don't know the answer, so don't embarrass me." A Partnership Is Formed The next morning, I told my best friend, Mike, what my dad had said. As best I could tell, Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school. Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate. Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district, and we wound up in school with the rich kids. We…