Chapter 13
A little later they entered Xultun proper, approaching from the heavily overgrown north side of the site, in the hope of hiding their presence. The pyramid, which Jimmy and Quinn had marvelled at earlier on, was now fully hidden by the ancient trees and lush vegetation. On the ground, they could see very little of the actual ruins of the once-great city, most of which was buried under centuries of sediment and strangled by dense forest. Quinn suspected that from the air or looking at the site from a distant rise, only the upper part of the main pyramid would be visible among Guatemala’s vast primal rainforest. The rest of the city would be hidden under the forest canopy.
A drizzle had started to fall as they moved among the trees, covertly trying to search for signs of the Ger
