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His boots hit the ground with a soft splash. For a second, he just stood there. Letting his eyes adjust. Letting the place settle around him.</p>","content":"<p>Rain hissed softly above the manhole cover, the sound filtered through layers of wet concrete and dripping steel. Markus Neumann wiped a gloved hand across his forehead and adjusted his helmet light. <em>Here we go again.</em> He muttered under his breath, the words echoing along the tunnel like a prayer no one would answer. Another leak complaint — it was the third this week.</p><p>The tunnel swallowed him in the way they always did — quietly, without acknowledgment. He climbed down the iron ladder steps, each one slick with condensation. His boots hit the ground with a soft splash. For a second, he just stood there. Letting his eyes adjust. Letting the place settle around him.</p>"},"id":"43ce2c42-9c9f-4997-96fa-fa1caefe4de6","isHidden":false,"type":"prose"},{"content":{"section_label":"","capitalise":"false","text":"<p>And tonight, something else. Not strong, but present. Chemical. Artificial.</p><p>He exhaled sharply through his nose and switched on his helmet lamp. The beam cut across the curved concrete, catching glints of water droplets and age-darkened moss. Thin roots dangled from a crack above his head like hair from a wound.</p>"},"id":"d698b583-5131-41b6-904b-01f159d8d023","isHidden":false,"type":"prose"},{"content":{"style":"t-rust","caption":"The tunnel swallowed him in the way they always did — quietly, without acknowledgment. He climbed down the iron ladder steps, each one slick with condensation. His boots hit the ground with a soft splash. For a second, he just stood there. Letting his eyes adjust. 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