In another universe, the ground split with a deafening crack.
Boom!
A massive foreleg of dark, crusted granite slammed into the canyon floor. The blow tore a crack ten feet wide through the bedrock, and jagged slabs of stone tumbled into the darkness below. Dust rolled up the cliffs in thick gray sheets.
Above the crack, the beast rose like a living mountain. It stood four hundred feet tall on four pillar-like legs, its shoulders hunched under a jagged shell of layered gray stone. Its thick, armored tail swept behind it and caught the rocky ridge along the western wall.
Crash!
The ridge sheared clean off and collapsed into a heap of gravel that buried half the canyon floor. The monster shifted its huge weight, and every step sent tremors racing across the land, shaking boulders loose from cliffs miles away.
High above the falling stone, Clone One hung in the open air.
