Bun and Cao Nyut followed Thermock into the tunnels she dug deep into the core of Cannesia, where all was dark and silent…at least, at first.

Cao Nyut cast a spell of illumination to light the way.

On the first day, they went below the outer crust to the first inner layer of earth, where only worms and roots survive.

On the second day, Thermock reappeared, taunting them. Bun and Cao Nyut chased her down to the second layer of earth, where all the precious gems and metal come from.

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On the third day, Bun and Cao Nyut followed Thermock’s trail down to the third level of Cannesia’s core, where ancient monsters dwell, who were once banished from the surface world.

Through a combination of guile and stealth, Bun and Cao Nyut managed to avoid getting killed while navigating through the third level of the planet. They emerged unscathed.

On the fourth day of their pursuit, Bun and Cao Nyut followed Thermock’s trail down to the Land of the Unmade, where half-finished thoughts of men, women, gods, and monsters morph into vengeful, contemplative, incomplete energy, conglomerations of thirsty power which fly around, taking glee in torturing each other for eternity. These spirits nearly drove Bun and Cao Nyut mad, but they persevered, following Thermock at last to the innermost layer of the Cannesian earth: the Core of Darkness, Shandapidoor, where the Murkhlings dwell.