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Our world is in dire need of hope, we have failed the surface of our world, the sky’s and space beyond offered no hope so we turned to the earth and dug deep into a world unlike any other.

I am known as the path builder, I lead small mining crews deep in to unexplored territory mapping out routes for the bigger teams to come and carve out resources. I and my team are now six months into our journey, deeper into the earth than any have ever been. No daylight, no real air, nothing but the seven of us and what we can carry on our backs. Hacking and crawling through the darkness. The stuff we’ve seen, I hardly know how to describe it all. Of course some of it has been seen before, nearer the surface, but on a much smaller scale. Down here everything is massive and seemingly more defined.

For my companions and I the horror started two days ago. We had just navigated a very small, natural passage. After a good few hours our path opened up before us and so, eventually we stepped out into one of the biggest spaces I have ever seen. To call it a huge cavern of giant proportions would be a massive understatement. This was a place unlike any other, we were agreed on that as soon as we entered. This was a new world so different to our own but somehow it existed underneath us. To list everything we saw would take forever and I really haven’t the time. Two things which I must quickly explain to you though are the rocks. Rocks that spontaneously burst in to flames, disintegrated in a cloud of smoke, to be replaced by giant, rat sized beetle like creatures, devouring anything in their path, including two of my teammates. The other are lizard like creatures as big as the mansions left from the past. They fly and breath fire. They are. And I cannot believe I am writing this down, let alone thinking it. They are dragons. The dragons did for the rest of my team. Now it’s just me, cowering in a small cave. Trying to build my nerve to leave, to run, get back to the real world. If I don’t make it I hope someone finds this and believes my words

It’s been a few weeks and I’ve been making good progress on my escape. I have to turn back now and face my fate. I can not carry on. Behind me for the past few days I have heard noises, shuffling and distorted sounds. I am sure I am being followed. Deep within me I know I can not let whatever is behind me get to the surface. This is my goodbye.