
You descend a rope with a fellow engineer into a tunnel your surveys never charted, lit like a street far below the mine. The rock gives way as he follows you down, and a falling stone knocks you unconscious before you can learn if he survived; you wake to find his body gone and a reptilian head pushing into the open. Aph-Lin, a winged stranger with a staff, leads you to a hall of silent machines, where a child named Tae recovers your rope and pleads your case.
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