They had taken a sounding, using the 90' reel and with the second they had taken, using the electronic sounding device attached to the end, they had determined the depth to be around 140 feet. This excursion they were planning tomorrow would have been planned for a lot further into the future had it not been for the peculiar discovery they made, which led to even more strange findings when he brought what he found to Professor Stiles.
What he found was what at first appeared to be a tiny human figurine, but once he picked it up, he immediately saw it wasn't exactly a figurine. When he held it between his fingers at its "hip" the torso and legs flopped downward limply. "Nick, get me the magnifying glass!" When Nick passed it to him, he asked for some light and Nick turned his flashlight on the tiny figure in the palm of his friend's hand. The features of the face were perfect features…too perfect to be carved, the eyes were shut tight and the mouth handing open. He gently touched the chin then opened and closed it a couple times. They looked at each other with puzzlement. Looking closely at the arms with the magnifying glass, they seemed to have joints… at the soldiers, elbows, and wrists… right where they belonged anatomically, and prodding gently around the torso, it seemed they could feel a rib cage within… and it was the same lower… a tiny pelvis and joints in the legs… all anatomically correct!
"Could this tiny man have once been alive?" Nick asked him. "It sure seems like human flesh, and not yet showing decomposition."
Upon professional examination, Len Cranston and Nick Carstairs' discovery would fuel their curiosity, as well as that of two professional men of learning, and lead them to take on an expedition to a world far below the surface of our own. The interior world of Infraterrum.
