Dilar and his grandfather, like the flotillas of Raft People, navigate dark underground rivers in search for the Better Place. But Dilar suspected they were headed nowhere, simply following the dark underground river blindly. And so one night he leaped onto a shelf of rock and from there he found his way Outside, into a beautiful and strange world - a world of day, and sun, of trees and sky.
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