Their fingers were
bleeding and their finger-nails cracked from the rock and cold; the
same is equally true of their toes. Had it been forty feet instead
of twenty--
The rocks ended there. Beyond was nothing but sky; even this was not
like what they were used to, but was very nearly black. Two more
spurts, and Rolla threw one hand ahead and caught the edge of the
rock. Cunora dragged herself alongside. The effort brought blood to
her nostrils.
They rested a minute or two, then looked at one another in mute
inquiry. Cunora nodded; Rolla took great breath; and they drew
themselves to the edge and looked over.
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The two women gazed in extreme darkness. The other side of the ridge
of rock was black as night. From side to side the ridge extended,
like a jagged knife edge on a prodigious scale; it seemed infinite
in extent. Behind them--that is, at their feet--lay the
stone-covered expanse they had just traversed; ahead of them there
was--nothingness itself.
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