4. Footway Robbery - Waelass

[Interovegas]

Nassur and the others trail further and further behind. Zwiche ignores their cowardice and marches ahead of Finch and Judy, depending on Judy's torch to light his way. Now everyone can notice the rise in temperature. Very quickly the air becomes uncomfortably hot. Zwiche follows the gentle curve of the hall. His anxiety and excitement twist together no longer able to felt as separate emotions. He scrapes against the walls quietly as he picks up speed. A faint orange din signals he is almost there! The bend comes to an end, Zwiche crosses the threshold ... and stops dead in his tracks. The others following rapidly behind him cannot make out any details from behind his enormous body.

Thirty paces away dim lights peek out from iron lids sealing multiple accesses to a towering iron chamber that stretches up to, and possibly through, the vaulted cieling thirty paces above. Two figures dressed in thick beige cloth coverings toil away atop a second story catwalk as they shovel dark chunks into the black behemoth. One of them idly glances back around the room and lurches backwards and shrieks when they spot Zwiche standing tall and armed with sharp steel. The second one looks back and trips over their robes and falls back against the black behemoth. One of the duo whistles an oscillating tune as loudly as they can.

Zwiche can barely make out two more passages behind the wooden catwalks around the room. They are just near the iron structure and leave out the left and right sides of the room.