Sandra breathed a sigh of relief. She really did not like the feeling of the narrow gully that seemed to close in on her.  She started climbing up the side slowly, slipping sometimes but going steadily upward toward light.<br/><br/>The creature had been probing the air with flowerlike censers trying to figure out what  was this new being. It was something it hadn’t it recognized, but it instinctually knew it was intelligent.<br/><br/>