= Chapter 6: Watched By Many =
The stalker growled in a low voice, "Not long, not now until they fall into the trap, so they will" Like a spider waiting to catch a fly, he maintained a distance and made sure the others didn't know he was there. Cadrig's foot got stuck on a mudokon skull, "Jeez, you think they'd so some spring cleaning round here" Rolf didn't like being here, the mudokon skulls didn't help one jolt. But they were moving closer to their goal, at least, Dignam could feel it.
Dignam crossed the corner and felt his body tremble. The thing they saw was a mixture of four things. It was alive, it was skeletal, it was glowing white and had a mysterious feeling about it. They waited for what seemed like an age before it turned away and disappeared into a corridor. Scazz had never seen anything like it, he trembled for the first time in his life and shook himself, trying to regain composure. They kept on walking, avoiding the bones and other debris that lay scattered around the uneven ground.
They approached a well-lit large room and entered. Dignam couldn't believe his eyes. Inside was a giant monstrosity of a machine. It had hundreds of cogs, thousands of screws and rivets... counting the number of welded pieces of metal would have taken the best part of ten years if that. It truly was a maze of pipes and noisy metal parts. It took them a few minutes to fully appreciate how large this machine was. The noise kept reverberating in their heads, making a large metal thudding noise like a jackhammer, but slower and more penetrating. There has to be a way to turn it off.
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