When the World Shook Chapter 26 - Tommy

In which the narrator and his companions emerge from a terrifying underworld, marked by tragic loss and a haunting confrontation with the malevolent Oro, before enduring a strenuous ascent to the surface guided by their faithful hound, Tommy. Upon their return to the island, they find its landscape irreversibly altered and prepare for departure, reflecting somberly on the ruin wrought and the mysteries encountered in their subterranean odyssey.