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16- Diggers of the Living Mine
	Transported by the wind, Proteena and her comrades reach a sort of cave. Inside, we see some Cycledwellers already digging the Mine, edible rivers flow, all kind of materials are collected and stored. The Engineer supervising the excavations explains: "There are Machines everywhere, some are static, others move. Look at those zeppelin fragments, they were eaten by the moving ones, we call them the Jellyfish. They are devastating, but seem not to notice us. And beyond this water portal flows a river that leads directly to the Internal Sea..."
	But we feel violent thoughts, in the distance a scientist is massacrated by some soldiers, the echo of the coup reverberates the walls of the cave, some soldiers are stupified, the Kind Lieutenant tries to defend Proteena, but he's outnumbered, though his sacrifice allows Proteena to cross the water barrier and plunge in the river, siezed by the stream.
17- Proteena escapes in the Internal Sea.
	She grabs a huge sizzling disk passing by, and sticks to it's concave center. From her hideaway, she sees legions of Cycledwellers excavating the river bed, trenches are built to protect from the stream, and columns of Modified transport all kind of materials. Right in front of Proteena, a commando feasts on the interiors of a disk, throwing chunks of food in the jaws of their frenzied Sirens. We start hearing a thump, a very low vibration that rythmically shakes the flow of the river and  grows in intensity: the Cycledwellers are scared to death.
18- Zymachi under attack!

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