Subterrestrial
“The scraps of pelt were greasy and desiccated. The fur was grayish-black and consisted of bristly guard hairs with a fine undercoat. It was the structure of the feet—or, more precisely, the flippers—that gave away their identity.
“They’re sea lions,” Calder said.
“We figure they must have been sucked down here when the caves filled with water,” Mitchell said.
“That doesn’t explain how they came to be in this state,” Payton said.
Calder knelt over the mess of carcasses. It was ob...vious by their arrangement and the patterns of dried blood around them that they’d been dragged to this one spot where they could all be covered up together. There were smeared footprints everywhere. Most had tread like their diving boots, while others were vaguely triangular, but she couldn’t even wager a guess as to which species could have made them. She traced the sloping lengths of several ribs still articulated with the spine.MoreLess
“They’re sea lions,” Calder said.
“We figure they must have been sucked down here when the caves filled with water,” Mitchell said.
“That doesn’t explain how they came to be in this state,” Payton said.
Calder knelt over the mess of carcasses. It was ob...vious by their arrangement and the patterns of dried blood around them that they’d been dragged to this one spot where they could all be covered up together. There were smeared footprints everywhere. Most had tread like their diving boots, while others were vaguely triangular, but she couldn’t even wager a guess as to which species could have made them. She traced the sloping lengths of several ribs still articulated with the spine.MoreLess
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