PROLOGUE

Tomorrow is Sean's 3rd birthday. I promised him I'd be back from my trip in time to give him his birthday present. Sadly, I'm starting to doubt that I can keep to that promise.

Everything is exactly like the book said it was down here. Right down to giant mushrooms and extinct birds, this place has it all. I haven't seen the dinosaurs yet, but I am not sure I plan to any time soon.

I still wonder at the "sun" in this place, as it seems impossible to have a sun inside the earth.

Max paused and looked up from his journal. He decided to continue on his journey. He would do exactly what the book described, assuming that the book was 110% accurate. So far they had been.

He added to his journal,

I will do exactly what is done in the book. It is all in the book.