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THE GORGE

The crossing, between the walls

The Living World · River gorge · The crossing
A steep-walled river gorge cut through the limestone
A steep-walled river gorge cut through the limestone

A steep-walled gorge with a river fording between the walls, the rock slick with wet.

Type
River gorge
Real basis
The karst is cut by rivers and steep gorges
In the story
The flight and the fall
01

The place

The limestone is cut by rivers into narrow, steep-sided gorges. The floor is boulders and fast water, the rock wet and slick.

02

In the story

The flight from the strangers runs here, and Tebo's foot slips on the wet stone. The fall that breaks the leg, and starts everything, happens in the gorge.

The Living World · TEBO 1 · The Dawn of Us. Imagery is AI-generated concept art. The Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat karst is a real region of East Kalimantan holding Liang Tebo.