Crawl ahead for about an hour and a half or two hours more. If nothing appears on my way, start crawling back.
It's hard to tell time here, lost in a fog bank, so you keep a count of seconds as best you can while slowly grinding your chest off on the pavement. After about an hour and a half, you finally notice that the fog seems to either be lifting higher off the ground, or that the road is slowly descending. It seems like you're coming out of the cloudline, but you can't see whats ahead because of the downward angle.
Down the path I go.
You carefully step onto the first metal rung and grit your teeth as it bends slightly from your weight.
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You make your way down, slowly, carefully, staying as close to the stone wall as possible and easing yourself onto each step. It takes a while, but you reach the bottom without a problem. The stone pathway is just above the water, and slow waves lap at its edges, occasionally splashing up onto it in a burst of foam. The water seems very dark, very deep, but you can see things in it; fish or something like fish, silvery and darting about near the surface. Plants grow in a band of green just above the water; tough sprouts of mountain grass, small flowers and even what look like berry bushes. The path here is thin, but flat and easy to walk. You follow it back around until you reach the point where it crosses under the bridge and you can see those geometric shapes again. From this angle they are clearly buildings. They appear to have been carved out of the stone of the mountain side, stacked boxes and thin pathways like the one you're on now. Wooden walkways crisscross the water, connecting the canyon walls together.
You can see what look like living beings moving in the structures; blurry white blobs shuffling about at a great distance.
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