At last I drew myself to my feet.
"Let's be going," I said.
The corridor stretched straight before us; along it we paced.

How far we walked I do not know; mile upon mile, it seemed.

It broadened abruptly into a vast hall.
And this hall was filled with the Metal Hordes--was a gigantic workshop of them.

In every shape, in every form, they seethed and toiled about it.

Upon its floor were heaps of shining ores, mounds of flashing gems, piles of ingots, metallic and crystalline.