Conversation · Visual Calculus

The light vanishes inside the concrete slit. The structure goes deep under the earth.

[Finish thought.]

"Kim, any idea what's down there?"

"No idea." He takes his glasses off to polish. "Could be connected to one of the buildings around here..."

"Think we might find Ruby down there?"

"We might find her down somewhere -- there's an old storm drain system beneath Martinaise that's mostly collapsed. Revachol's sewage system has been built and rebuilt four or five times now."

He puts his glasses back on. "In conclusion -- she could be under any building."

"But not in there?"

He looks into the slit and sighs. "I hope not."

Yell "Ho!" into the slit.

There's no echo -- and no answer.

The silence of god? Sorry...

What's in there?

Maybe it's just a storm drain for the sewer?