For days after that, the miner walked until he found a spot in a dense forest along the Wall where he would begin digging.
He dug and dug, but seemed to make no progress.
It's probably what I'm cut out to do, after all.
If someone else had so much as heard them, it wouldn't be long until the Military Police would show up.
He could dig a path in no time - through difficult tunnels that gave any other miner fits.
It was what he had done for 20 years straight, and during that time, he learned to dig deeper, faster, and more efficiently than any of his peers.