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"It is, but right now we're in the middle, and once the stars come out we're as privileged as death." What a weird statement, Roman thought.

Roman took a step forward, he glanced behind him at Yashin whose attention seemed to be somewhere else. He didn't look ahead of him as he took the next step, which happened to be a small pothole and his leg entered inside. And stuck. "Yashin…"

Yashin's attention snapped off whatever it was looking at and turned over to Roman. "Shit, don't panic, it's not gonna explode with poisonous gas. It's small." He guaranteed upon getting near to Roman.

Roman realized half a second later the pothole was expanding. His foot was still stuck inside despite it growing. Yashin caught him by the arm and pulled him out of the hole forcefully which however made them collide with a rock behind them. This place was full of rock, Roman groaned as he thought.

All beetles paused and turned their heads to the noise before moving closer to it.