'Move one stone at a time, and one day you'll move a mountain. I think we will have to move a mountain very soon. So let me get my sister out of this hellish rain before worse things happen to her.' Ralif thought to himself again in depression, after spending a few minutes lost in thought about the source of the blood rain and his future, while the feeling of fear and disgust bombarded his mind.
He then carefully lifted his sister up from the ground onto his left shoulder, before walking into the deep passageway that led him down to the unknown, through its muddy, blood covered flight of stairs.
After entering the passageway and walking for more than half a mile in darkness he strangely started to hear a chant echo from deep within the passageway. "Kskjf ljl4l fslk soerejt….."
The chant that sounded like people of all ages were singing with all their hearts, in extreme sorrow, moved him. He had never heard this chant before, yet, after he continued for another 10 minutes, he unknowingly started chanting along as well.
By the time he was at the end of the stairs, he was already crying in sadness, chanting along in extreme sorrow. The chant brought with it emotions that he couldn't control, emotions he didn't even know he had, emotions of extreme sorrow and melancholy.
After walking in sadness for about a mile he finally arrived at a hollowed out dark cave, where he saw over 300 people huddled together in the darkness, singing the sorrowful chant that brought him to tears on his way.
Inside the cave where the people sang quietly to themselves, he noticed the walls of the cave seemed to have been frozen solid. Yet the temperature within the cave was still warm enough for the people within it to live comfortably. He realized someone had likely frozen the surroundings of the cave, in order to harden it and make it harder to destroy by shock waves, in order to protect the people hidden within it.
Looking at the sorrowful people, chanting before him, he noticed their disheveled faces, that were covered in fear and anxiety. He noticed the dried up tears on the faces of the women, and little children among them. The exhaustion on the men's faces from always standing watch in taut attention, ready to defend their families at any point in time from any danger that came from the entrance of the cave. Seeing the evidence presented to him, Ralif finally understood why his sister was about to enter this cave before she passed out.
"I come in peace." He slowly stated while watching their fear filled faces, that looked at him with both reverence and fear, as if they were looking at an unknown emperor, someone who may be regal and honorable, but could end their lives at any moment.