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Daemi crouched behind a large, jagged rock that reared out of the ground just inside the entrance to the chamber, poking her head up over the edge to try to make some sense of the chaotic scene in front of her.
Heather and Higgs were still wrapped together beside her, Heather making the excuse that Higgs was still too weak to stand on his own, and Higgs not putting up much of a protest about it. They huddled beside her, wide eyed and wincing with every crack and shift beneath them.
It felt as if the mountain itself was breaking in two. Every few seconds, a fresh quake rumbled through the chamber, sending spikes of stone tumbling from the ceiling high above to smash down on whatever poor unfortunate happened to be standing beneath it. The slowly milling crowds of workers seemed to tak
