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Magna Rain was vast. It sprawled with the size of a great city. Judging by the scale of the cavern alone, thousands could have lived here without pressing shoulder to shoulder. To think such a place existed beneath open ground left Ketal quietly astonished.
However, the astonishment did not last. In that wide space, he sensed no living presence. Silence filled every street and every hall as if it had been poured in and set hard.
Magna Rain was broken.
“We are late,” Ketal said, clicking his tongue as he stepped forward.
Everything that had made the city had been destroyed. Calling it a ruin would not have been a stretch. Yet these were not ordinary marks of ruin.
“What is this?” he whispered.
Something lay before him near the entrance. By position, it had likely been a guard post, the sort of place where tokens were checked and questions asked.
He had to call it a guess, because there was no way to tell what the original shape had been. The thing looked like a rag twisted dry and left in the sun until it turned to a brittle knot. It had been wrung past its limit and abandoned to harden into a contorted remnant.
That...
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