Chapter 20 - Epicenter of ChaosStill from Eclipse's point of view...What I saw in Matrix's mind was unbelievable. I saw darkness overtakinglight at an...astronomical rate... and then I saw the two figures ahead ofme.One was Rachel... at least I assumed it was. She appeared so weakened bythe struggle that she could not even stand or look up at me. All shecould seem to do was cry.The other came after me the second he saw me. This had to be Anthony.He screamed at me, then yelled, "Why? Why is this. She wouldn’t saying she felt guilty with her husband but I kept on at her as she stroked me. Then she moved away reaching for a robe I thought I had blown my chance but she told me to wait there as she went out of the room . I started to dry myself further thinking I would go but then the door opened and she walked back in but she wasn’t alone. A younger woman was with her (started her was 20 I found out later) ‘Sally will fuck you ‘ she said. Sally was taller than me blonde and so slim in her. I wanted to cry, to hit him, to hold him, to shake him. I don’t often get angry but I was getting there now but I had to hold myself in check. He had so little confidence in himself and his attractiveness that even with Mike telling him I liked him, me telling him I liked him, he still didn’t really believe it was possible. I was going to have to take drastic action here or we would go round in circles. I was thinking all this then I realised that Mike and Lena were both looking at me waiting. Recent is within the past five hundred thousand years.Yesterday is ten thousand years.Historic is someone wrote about it.The old timers had chased a diminishing vein of gold bearing quartz until it was unprofitable to continue. There were easier prospects farther along the stream. When they stopped they had driven boreholes in the face but never finished the blast.That this mine was abandoned as a bad job was seen in the lack of timbering. Mines with promise were timbered. Walls were smoothed.