Precious Metal

Her statement did nothing to calm Kary's heart down as it raced from the close shave she just had. She had to take a step back for a second, to wind down from this, while the others started looking at the trap.

Alex walked up to the now blocked corridor, tapping on one of the metal rods and his brows furrowed.

The crisp *Ding* he got from the rod proved his thoughts right, and he turned to David to confirm.

"Is this what I think it is?"

David nodded, inspecting another of those rods only six inches further in, which went at a diagonal across.

"Yes. These are magisteel rods. I don't know how they got rods of these in here, but that stuff is worth a little fortune, even in New Eden… Unless they smelted them on their own, it makes little to no sense that this would be here," David acquiesced.