Chapter 19: Stop Following Me

Renee

Renee noticed the shadow behind her following her for several steps, but she pushed aside the urge to stop trailing her hand along the ancient cave wall. Arched doorways stretched high above her. How many people did it take to build this underground city?

Last time she looked, Travis plodded after her. Her fingers traced over the grooves in the volcanic rock, carved as early as the seventh century B.C.E. However, there was no way to know for certainty when or who made the caves. Experts argued between the Biblical Hittites to Phrygians, related to the Trojans. Christians were expelled from Cappadocia in the 1923 population exchange between Turkey and Greece. Forty years later, no one knew the hidden tunnels existed until a man located a room behind a wall in his home.