# **They Mocked the Woman Who Came to Feed Them. By Winter’s End, Every Man at Grady Ranch Would Know Who She Truly Was.**NVP
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Chapter 20 - Into the Cavern
Leaving the prisoners under guard, Coulter, Rafe, and Edith cautiously stepped inside the dark, dusty mine shaft. The air was thick with gunpowder fumes and loose gravel. Using oil lanterns, they navigated past the fallen rocks until they reached a small, pristine chamber that had remained sealed for over twenty years. There, resting on a flat stone pedestal, sat a iron-bound wooden chest painted with a faded U.S. Army emblem. It was untouched, exactly as Lydia had left it decades ago.
