[ He rounds the corner, illuminating the space with torchlight.
Truth be told, this isn't what he'd expected when he mentioned running water having an outlet - he was expecting something slower, smaller, a steady-flowing creek at the most. He studies it, brow furrowing up a little, glancing back behind them and then forward again. ]
So we... wait a second--
[ He does engineering, sure, but his sense of direction's not entirely the most reliable. He doesn't have a precise memory for maps, he just... feels like with the direction they'd entered the cave, the direction the tunnel started curving, maybe they should've seen...
Fuck it. There are a thousand explanations, maybe it keeps on going underground for a few miles before spilling out into some kind of lake, or even the fucking ocean. At this point he's just looking for shit to mistrust.
It's not like they're going for a fucking swim. ]
This is... good.
[ Tentatively. Maybe. Probably. ]
Water flowing this rapidly in this quantity, it'll have worn down a sizable exit point in the rock. Definitely has to be big enough to make it out.
[ There's almost no way this doesn't dump out of this cave system onto the surface skin of the earth somewhere. It has to, by all the understanding Ian has of how water wears down rock over time. ]
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Truth be told, this isn't what he'd expected when he mentioned running water having an outlet - he was expecting something slower, smaller, a steady-flowing creek at the most. He studies it, brow furrowing up a little, glancing back behind them and then forward again. ]
So we... wait a second--
[ He does engineering, sure, but his sense of direction's not entirely the most reliable. He doesn't have a precise memory for maps, he just... feels like with the direction they'd entered the cave, the direction the tunnel started curving, maybe they should've seen...
Fuck it. There are a thousand explanations, maybe it keeps on going underground for a few miles before spilling out into some kind of lake, or even the fucking ocean. At this point he's just looking for shit to mistrust.
It's not like they're going for a fucking swim. ]
This is... good.
[ Tentatively. Maybe. Probably. ]
Water flowing this rapidly in this quantity, it'll have worn down a sizable exit point in the rock. Definitely has to be big enough to make it out.
[ There's almost no way this doesn't dump out of this cave system onto the surface skin of the earth somewhere. It has to, by all the understanding Ian has of how water wears down rock over time. ]