It is flowing toward the cliff edge, where it will pour off in one of the waterfalls that feed three river systems.

It is percolating into the fractures of two-billion-year-old rock.

The mountain is doing what it has been doing for longer than animal life has existed on this planet: receiving water, feeding rivers, hosting life, and eroding grain by grain toward a shape that it will reach only in the geological future, long after the current roster of species has changed beyond recognition.

That is Roraima.