Disclaimer: see chapter one
The room was dark, the only light shining into the room coming from the ceiling light behind the group.
"Krystian. Light." The aforementioned male lifted his gun up and side-stepped around Jet, turning the light on. A beam of light cut across the room, and a second later, was joined by another, as Berenice had come around and had raised her light above their heads.
Jet walked into the room, through the entrance corridor, followed by the others, and lay Z onto the closest couch, not really caring at the moment that they were protected with a plastic covering.
There was a humming noise, and a series of long metal shutter lifted up, revealing large windows and a really big balcony door, framing clearly a beautiful clear sky outside. About three quarters the distance between the door Jet had entered and the balcony doors was a descending incline, which Jet knew from experience led down to the pit. So as to make the incline not so deep, the Ancients had made the room so that there was a shallow incline which led to the balcony doors.
The room was large, Jet already knew this, but he'd never seen the furniture in this layout before. The shelves were filled with crystals, small doo-hickeys, and what looked to him like the life signs detector he had packed into a crate. There were several large viewing screens on the grass-coloured walls that were blank at the moment, and were covered in what appeared to be a thin layer of dust. Never in his memory had the screens been dirty, because dirt interfered with the visibility options, and all of the children had hated not being able to see things properly. The computer access terminals he had passed on his way in had been like this as well, the chairs and consoles both covered with sheeting.
The floor was emerald green, and was made of the slightly bouncy type that he was used to. His parents had supposed that the Ancients had also used this room for their children, and a bouncy floor reduced the number of accidents that happened.
Krystian and Berenice split up and searched the two side corridors that he knew led to the various bedrooms, and the children around him sat on the various chairs or couches, some of them even pulling the coverings around them like a bedspread.
The patrolling pair swiftly returned up the tunnel below the window, as there was a set of stairs in the corner of each half of the Pit which led to the next level downwards. The next level downwards was were the Dragons slept, but for the next few weeks or so, he guessed they were all going to sleep up here, reassuring the children and those who woke up from nightmares.
Berenice and Krystian reported the all clear, and Jet sent the older, more awake ones off with sets of linen to make the beds, listening to a message from Shadow, and returning her call, before collapsing onto a nearby chair, falling asleep.