Run to Ground
“You remember I was telling you about that old entrance to the tunnels?”
“This is it?” said Jim.
Father Powers nodded. “This is it. Now stay close, it’s dark down here and we’ve only the one torch.”
The steps were narrow and worn to smooth, polished depressions in the middle. The temperature dropped and became almost freezing as they descended. Jim’s arms came up in goose bumps.
“Do you . . . do you know what those things are?” said Jim.
“They’re Byrgen,” Father Powers told him. “Or Byrgen-Beorden, to give them their full title. It’s from the Anglo Saxon, roughly translated it means ‘grave-child’ or ‘born-of-the-grave.’”
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