"Not yet," Sophia said and shook her head. Now, however, she was intrigued. Stepping close to the wall Sophia put her hand out and ran her fingertips along the runes. They were smooth, but if you moved your hand off of them and onto the rest of the wall the surface was rough. She looked closely at the symbols, examining them. As Tim said the runes looked to be a mixture of hieroglyphic pictures and various kinds of alphabets. But maybe it was a language all its own.

"Amazing," she sighed. Then she turned to Tim and grinned. "This was an amazing discovery, Tim!" She exclaimed happily. "I'm glad you noticed these runes. Perhaps that storm hitting wasn't so bad after all." Sophia was simply overwhelmed. Never before had she thought she would actually stumble upon something like this: something ancient and mysterious and magical. "It's like something out of a book or a video game."