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Copper Mountain - Home of Jolene, Mistress of Copper Mountain.
It is warmer in here than it is outside, except for the cave floor. The walls of the cave are close enough to touch. The floor is rocky, at first dirt littered with small rocks, but the deeper it goes, the more it changes. First comes dirt and rocks, then more rocks, mud, and then smooth rock as if polished by water. And then there are little puddles. Everywhere there is the sound of dripping water. Then the walls pull away from each other.
It is a vast cavern with a ceiling and walls and floor that look as if the stone has liquefied and then become solid again, but not before it formed pillars and gigantic wax-like drapes. Perhaps the structures aremore like stone icicles. They aren't just pillars and icicle's either; here, the stone formed into a kind of wavy, draped curtain. There, it has formed into a sort of gigantic mushroom. And there, icicle and pillar fused into a ribbed column. In the centre is a lake. The colour of all the stone is a soft cream with a hint of translucence it almost seems to be alive.
There is a formation of four stone icicles, close together. Tucked up among them is alight the size of a human head, too bright to look at directly. Under that formation is a beautifully crafted workbench at least 10 feet long and three wide; Part wood, part stone, and part metal. It is beautifully constructed of cream stone, pale wood, grey metal.
Later comes room fit for a queen. A sheet of the waterfall like stone, 3 storeys high and lit from behind, forms the backdrop for a platform of stone that has clearly been carved out of the native stone that was there before. So has the throne that stands on it. The throne is marvellously carved, covered with sinuous, entwining representations of lizards of the same sort that are living here. Move the lizards - live ones this time - twine their metallic green bodies among the creamy stone of the carved ones. They are joined by another set of lizards - and these are copper coloured. The throne is also illuminated, not from above, but from below and within. Sitting on that throne, glowing golden with her own power is Jolene.
Her hair looks like red , spun copper, and in It she wears another one of those odd, half-moon shaped crowns, but this one has the form of a snake the twists around and back and through its own coils and it can only be what the old songs called pure red gold. The copper coloured lizards have entwined themselves in her hair, their shining hides hard to distinguish from her shining hair. Her green eyes glow - actually glow. In style, her gown is not unlike a whole body apron with wide shoulder straps over at chemise, but the chemise is of the thinnest, whitest, softest material you have ever seen. The incredible gown is like no fabric you've ever laid eyes on. It looks like hammered copper, but It moves like silk. The white trim that forms the straps and the neckline and runs around the bottom hem of the gown is 4 inches wide and sewn so thickly with genuine gems that nothing of the fabric beneath is visible. The gems wink and gleam softly in the indirect light, sending off rainbows of colour, daring you to disbelief that they are genuine. , so many colours.
This mountain contains rich Malachite and Copper Veins that are both mined.
