Three humanoid races dwell in the Deep Cavern. These are dwarfs, creatures about 4’ 2” tall who carve exceptional murals into the rocks of the cavern. Their civilization consists of the hard-working Resan race, the technical Forsan dwarfs and the wise Glosan. And in the stream that crosses the depths of the cavern, lives a giant caterpillar that some call Gusano (Spanish for ‘Worm’)...
It is an enormous cavern with entrances covered by lush vegetation and where the sunshine illuminates in the morning the large low-relief that is found below the hollow that looks towards the east, and in the afternoon, the one below the west entrance.
Two shepherds, father and son, enter one day through the hollow that looks towards the east. The next day they return and meet the inhabitants of the cavern. They begin to teach them how to speak for they only communicate using grunts and thoughts. The dwarfs tell the shepherds about their traditions, share with them their simple wisdom and explain to them the reason why they carve their brilliant reliefs.
"After a short while, Gusano emerged half of his body from the water. He had just made sure that Baltasar had drowned. He believed that the dwarfs and the other creatures had escaped from death. He intuited that they would never return and that he would die if he stayed there. But he could not escape by crawling or under the water through the underground stretch of the stream. He had tried it several times and had assumed that he would drown before reaching a place where he could breathe again. But anyway, why would he try to escape? He did not want to live, surviving alone in the darkness, eating other living beings and drinking water from the stream. He wished for the end of his life, which he believed to be miserable, although it had had a purpose: that very thought comforted him... for him nothing made sense anymore, only death did."
It is an enormous cavern with entrances covered by lush vegetation and where the sunshine illuminates in the morning the large low-relief that is found below the hollow that looks towards the east, and in the afternoon, the one below the west entrance.
Two shepherds, father and son, enter one day through the hollow that looks towards the east. The next day they return and meet the inhabitants of the cavern. They begin to teach them how to speak for they only communicate using grunts and thoughts. The dwarfs tell the shepherds about their traditions, share with them their simple wisdom and explain to them the reason why they carve their brilliant reliefs.
"After a short while, Gusano emerged half of his body from the water. He had just made sure that Baltasar had drowned. He believed that the dwarfs and the other creatures had escaped from death. He intuited that they would never return and that he would die if he stayed there. But he could not escape by crawling or under the water through the underground stretch of the stream. He had tried it several times and had assumed that he would drown before reaching a place where he could breathe again. But anyway, why would he try to escape? He did not want to live, surviving alone in the darkness, eating other living beings and drinking water from the stream. He wished for the end of his life, which he believed to be miserable, although it had had a purpose: that very thought comforted him... for him nothing made sense anymore, only death did."
