Chrysalis

The air tickles against my mana sense, a new sensation, like a pool of shadow lapping against my mind. There's something else that's off about this tunnel. It's too… civilised. The usual crags and stony pillars that jut upwards or downwards are curiously absent. It's almost as if someone had curated this section of tunnel to make it more palatable to move through.

Oh snap!

Have we come across another travelled section of tunnel that the humans use? Or does someone else live around here? I can't rule it out. It's time to engage stealth mode! Which I have to say, I'm not nearly as good at now, given my size… It's better than nothing!

[You guys hang here for a minute. I need to go and explore this tunnel to make sure it's safe.]

[Hurr?] Tiny grunts.

[No we can't just fight everything. If we run into those Legion guys, they'll be more trouble than we need right now. Use your head.]

[Harr!]

[Yes, I was a bit harsh there, I apologise.]

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which itself was the bastard

Grip Skill! Strain! My claws groan as I start my journey

tunnel is truly massive. It gapes, more than a hundred metres wide and easily more than twenty metres

out into the tunnel I travel, the more clear the signs of civilised intervention is. The floor of the tunnel hasn't

level in Grip along the way. Which helps, but not

makes me do a double take. It's a wall. Normally not cause for a whole lot of excitement, but when I say wall I mean an actual, constructed wall. I might not have noticed it if I hadn't noticed the smooth curve as it met the tunnel wall on the other side. Bless you, eye mutations. All of

time I snuck up on a guard post, they have monster

I can see a rampart, a gate, narrow windows for the firing

it out of here!

back to my waiting pets. Tiny is asleep and Crinis is quite anxious.

an

[What is it, Master?]

guarded by a big