The descent into the Serpent's Grate was a journey through the suffocating bowels of an active volcanic furnace. Beneath the eastern foundations of Black Crag, the subterranean conduit was a narrow, slippery shaft carved from porous volcanic basalt. The air was stiflingly hot, heavy with sulfur dioxide and the scalding hiss of superheated steam escaping from iron cooling-pipes. A foot below their boots, a channel of murky, boiling water rushed…
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