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　　Stepping through the small door Royce and Hadrian entered into a strange new world of bewildering confusion. Everywhere they looked were stairs, platforms, axles, and gears. Thousands of interconnected cogs ran vertically, horizontally, and on varying angles. There were flat gears, round gears, solid and hollow gears. Some were diamond-shaped while others looked like grooved toy tops—the serrated heads of giant drills. Hadrian spotted some the size of thimbles and others as big as ships. A few were so massive he couldn`t tell if they were gears or parts of a wall. Some spun with a soft whirl, others clicked with constant and perfect repetition, and the big ones didn`t appear to move at all. There were levers, also of varying sizes and lengths, along with dials, switches, and cranks. The place was illuminated by yellow and green light. The green came from colored crystals similar to Scram the Scallie, only far larger. The yellow—far too gold to be sunlight—shone out of massive glass covered apertures as if a great fire burned behind them. Some natural white light spilled from high overhead, but it was faint and hazy as if showing signs of wear from having bumped and bounced its way down. The whole of the interior smelled of grease, oil, smoke, and new metal.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.