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You pause as you hear a faint sound. Not even daring to breathe, you strain your ears and in the distance you hear a … click …. click … click … like metal shards dropping one by one onto a piece of glass.

You wait, and the clicking subsides. With a shudder, you let out your breath and take a step … only to jump away as the ground collapses right in front of you. A huge spindlescuttler, all shiny brown carapace, slicing mandibles, and hundreds of legs, rears above you.