“Nope,” he said, “after we go further down this way,” he pointed in the direction they were moving, “the shaft widens out into a big bulge. In the middle of that bulge is the Kugelblitz. We’ll be walking on rafters suspended around it.”

“Will it…will it hurt us?”

“Nah,” he assured her with a smile, “it’s inside a big, giant metal ball that keeps it held in a powerful magnetic field. You can’t even see it.”

“I don’t know what that means.”

He grinned, “I don’t fully understand it myself, and learning that stuff is a big part of our schooling. But it won’t hurt you. There is a lot of humming and stuff comi...

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