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With no visible movement to identify it, the sporadic distant clinking of metal on metal gave an eerie atmosphere to the otherwise thick silence of the smothering darkness filling the great cavern of a warehouse spanning 25,000 square feet. The spell was broken by a side-door opening with a screech along its steel rail, to throw in a splash of daylight to slice the interior darkness with a solid golden sheet of sunlight filled with millions of dancing dust particles. A head with its welding mask raised, peered round the door, only to withdraw sharply in lightning reflex at the sight of an approaching colonel. Nervous pigeons, alerted by the change, fluttered away to safer perches among the spider-work of steel roof-beams.
A ‘blob of darkness’ seemingly shifting in the distant gloom, ma
