Malachi Lazuli

Nothing so far, but that thing has a tendency of showing up when it's least expected, so I'm not putting the binos down anytime soon.

It's just one of the many things that's hard to believe.

Have you ever found anything in those files that might give us a clue on how to stop it?

I mean...

Besides, fire started with children, of course.

Are you talking about that weird library that was recently discovered deep within that massive cave system in West Virginia?

You're talking about the so-called Library of Below.

One of my students actually sent me an article about it.

The cavern was most likely formed by a glacial outburst flooding, a phenomenon where an enormous volume of water trapped behind glaciers or their debris are suddenly released with catastrophic force.

As for how anyone managed to turn such a massive cavern into a library, I haven't the faintest idea.

Hey, you're pretty smart for a bus driver.

That's snowcrawler pilot to you.

And if you keep up your snarky elitism, you can walk.

I'm just thrilled you think an archaeologist could be an elitist.

Well, machine-making demons are a thing, so I suppose anything's possible.

At least you're keeping an open mind.

You'll have to forgive me for sounding a bit anti-intellectual, but at the moment I couldn't give a rat's ass about the flood narrative.

Hmm.

It sounds like the text is drawing a clear distinction between the types and origins of evil.

There's supernatural evil, the kind committed by demons and devils, and then there's mortal evils, the sins of humankind.