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Nov 24, 2006, 09:08 AM
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I grasped the wheel and turned it counterclockwise. It creaked at first as though the axle was going to snap, but soon gave in, made a coarse scraping noise, and rotated. The piping shuddered as a dull warmth flowed into the left pipe.
Fawriel looked down at the pipe he was holding to stay warm. "It's getting cold."
"Try the left one," I responded, "or the one in front of us; I'm going to go check out that building ahead," I added, climbing over the metal pipe.
After a short challenge with hoising the canoe over the pipe, the party followed me forward.

The pipe took a sharp right turn up ahead. Before us was a large metal box with a small rectangular indentation containing two metal claws. A pipe led out of the box and across a stream of smoking, opaque blue liquid. I went forward a bit and felt the box and the pipe. They were both colder than ice.