The Frame Narrative - The First Reading

Allan, why don't you get us started with the first reading? Allan, all right. I'm going to pick up a paragraph after we last left off. So at this point, sam has observed that, well, we've, you know, set ourselves a puzzle for that. At footpad for gallum, they picked their steps away from the skirts of the cliff among a wilderness of boulders and rough stones. Wet and slippery with the heavy rain, the ground still fell away sharply. They had not gone very far when they came upon a great fissure that yawned suddenly black before their feet. It was not wide, but it was too wide to jump across