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Even as you are running the bear is stirring. By the time you are only a few steps away, it is sitting up rubbing its eyes, looking like a huge, lovable teddy bear. The bear must have started hibernating—it doesn’t seem very active—but it’s totally blocking the tunnel. In a few seconds it could come alive and break your neck with one swat of its paw. Instinctively you wheel and retreat toward the entrance, though you’re aware that the bear can outrun you. Remembering the wall-climbing feat of the Neanderthal boy, you veer to your right and leap up on the first projecting rock. In the dim light you see a notch in the rock wall where you can get a foothold. As you climb up another notch a terrifying roar fills the cave. The bear is wide-awake! You scramble high up the wall, knowing that the bear can easily reach ten feet—it could stand up and pull down a basketball hoop without even stretching! You manage to get to a recess in the rock—safe for the moment from the bear raging inches below you. Your whole body shudders as you realize how close you were to death; then panic hits. You are hardly safe—you’re trapped in a tiny, cold-bound prison. Despairing, you crawl father into the dark niche, and at once feel yourself falling, sliding at tremendous speed down a smooth rock chute. Almost unconscious, you’re vaguely aware that once again you have enter the Cave of Time… Turn to page 77.