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I'm not proud to admit it took me a long while to work up the courage to venture underground.
The trapdoor led down into a sort of mineshaft, shored up with the same kind of smooth metal making up the wheel in the sky overhead.
Again I felt fear, before a young girl spoke to me from across the chamber.
At first I had trouble understanding her, but somehow her words gradually became sensible.
I thought I heard her call me 'conquistador', which confused me until I remembered my helmet, and removed it to set her at ease.
As I did that, I realized she'd said something more like 'colonizer'.
I resented being cast in the role of villain, but I saw that she wasn't afraid of me.
I told her she shouldn't have risked leading me to her hideaway, since she was alone and unarmed.
She waved away my concern, and introduced herself as Nida before offering something to eat and drink.
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~ Gabriel
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