These ruins are half buried into the mountainside, still affected by much of the tectonic upheavals that hit the Dell for all these past centuries. Past the slanted entrances and broken masonry, rich with submarine symbols, opens a very deep temple with a large vaulted ceiling at least a mile wide, held by a forest of pillars, half flooded at the bottom with many areas requiring a raft or boat to traverse. Several large canals running all across have formed around the statues and roofs of smaller temple buildings, and the deep rooms are all flooded except for some air pockets in the few vaulted rooms. A tense power still is held in this place, as if a divine presence has taken notice of the entrance of trespassers here.
Middle of the road
‘Sigrid stood at the gates to the inner city, clutching her gun tightly as the people gathered around before the regiment. They all looked rabid and malnourished as they clutched makeshift weapons. They yelled things and threw objects at the gates. The crowd grew louder and larger, and they threw more stones and loose pipes. Until a gunshot sounded, and a man in front of her fell. The crowd roared, and she was swept up in a flood of bodies.’
