“The blizzard had carried on through most of Sunday, but had finally blown itself out shortly after sunset. Over the engine noise, he only heard snatches of Ursu’s tour-guide patter from the seat beside him. “The largest building is the process plant...runs twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. That’s the main power station...diesel engines...exhaust heat recovered to heat buildings. And we call that the utilidor: it’s a covered walkway so workers don’t have to go ou...tside during bad weather. The ore stockpile there lets us keep working even if regular ore supplies are interrupted...ammonium nitrate storage plant over there. We use ANFO – ammonium nitrate and fuel oil – for blasting...”He went on, but Major tuned him out. He still didn’t know exactly where the shard of Excalibur was hidden, but it was down there somewhere – he could feel it, a glimmering sliver of the power of Faerie that had once been his and would be again.A blue blotch on the far side of the small lake south of the mine drew his attention.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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