09/03/2025 Snippet, IRONGHOSTS Part 2.

Sewers!

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The rumbling from the surface grew louder, until it was directly above them… and did not stop. Instead, it grew fainter and fainter, until it was nothing more than the background noise of the world. When that, too, had vanished, Oxman straightened from his fighter’s half-crouch. “No sense cringing at every sound,” he said, low but not whispering. “It will either hear, or not. Best to know now.”

“The answer is… ‘not,’ it seems,” Nat decided after spending a minute listening to the dripping susurrus of a river underground. “Do you have a way to see?”

“The same as you, I wager,” Oxman chuckled, as he pulled out a pair of glasses. As he put them on the passage instantly grew bright enough to discern, if colorless. A quick look revealed that Nat had put on his own pair, which had also been artfully crafted to resemble the fabled Way-farers of the Old Americans. “At least it’s sweet-smelling down here, for a sewer.”

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