It was hot in the Earthen Furnace.  Yes, the name implied that it was warm, but at times it was almost impossible to grasp just how hot it truly was down there. The little charm dangling from their ear was usually more than enough to keep them at a comfortable temperature but right now? It was hardly keeping them cool enough to think. They had been working in this room for over an hour now, grumbling quietly to their self...

The moment after Terrence said good by at the surface, Cadastrel had turned around and headed back into the dungeon.They didn't intend to go far, indeed they knew exactly where they wanted to go long before they'd even gotten all the way up to the surface. Staring into the room now, they were glad they'd come down here. Their thoughts had been correct, though, on a much, much larger scale than they would've anticipated.T...

So far, nothing horrible had happened. No one was hurt, nothing bad had happened, it was just a long, long hallways sloping slowly down and away from that horribly angry face-mouth doorway. Which was surprising. The sense of dread Terrence had gotten as he walked through the door hadn't gone away, but it'd been about a half hour stroll since they'd first gone through and nothing had happened. ...

Terrence couldn't help but keep glancing over at the courser he was leading into the dungeon.It wasn't rare to see one of the Azimuth family members diving, but it was rare for one of them to inquire of any of the other large families to take one of them diving. He wasn't going to complain about it, not in the slightest. He was earning about six times as much as when he dove with other contractors,  so even if things went weird, there was no way he was going ...