"Safety hazard?" Adam asks trying to find a lightswitch. He opts to pull a Swiss army knife with a small lantern attached.

"It's too dark! People are gonna trip!"

"But what if-"

He is interrupted by sounds coming behind him. "Get inside!" He hurries to get into the dark corridor.

Nico follows and hides as sneakily as possible!

The door closes behind them. They are in the dark except for Adam's lantern.

There is a brief sound coming down the corridor, like something scurrying around the metallic floor.

Nico stays as silent as he possibly can be. He doesn't use any magic just yet - he has precious few points left.

Adam points his light in that direction.

Then the sound comes from the other end of the corridor.

You know what being in the dark and something scurrying around nearby is scary he's got blue to burn.

Let there be light.

The light briefly illuminates what looks like...

...people, except they are a couple inches tall. They are dressed in improvised patchwork sailor uniforms and Nico will get the glimpse of three holding up a hammer before they drop it to the floor and run away.

"Oh."

And they're human shaped, not mice or anything? People-animals seem to be a thing here. Huh.

"Who're they?"

Not mice at all, except in the way they all scurried away from the light.

"I don't know them? I think they are just the ship's little ones." Pause. "Do you know if the age to talk to them is the same everywhere?"

"No clue. I think you're the expert on, uh, little ones here."

"The ones at my house don't run away like that and I am not feeling cursed." Shrug. "Wanna go back at looking?"

"...Yeah. I wanna see the enginey bit, not just a furnace."

"Me too." He looks around, this is not a particularly interesting corridor, but there are two double-doors one at each end. "You're the one with the good light."

"Sure, but it only works in short bursts." And just as he says this, it winks out. "Tch. I should've made it red. Red light doesn't ruin your dark vision."

"How do you it anyway?" Adam says opening one of the doors. "Ah, look it's in here."

The door leads to a catwalk that shows the furnaces bellow, they have a better angle to see the whole thing, the individual furnaces in rows, the piles of coal between then and the odd spider-like ducts that touch the top of each furnace.

"I just do. Ooh, looks like those pipes take steam up..." he looks for where they go.

The pipes gather at two different pieces of machinery, both very complicated, one if full of wires and they can see little sparks running over it and the other is full of pistons performing arcane movements.

Cooooool.

Adam appears to agree.

"What are you two looking at?" Says a voice from around Nicodemus' ankles.

He jumps! He looks for the voice and backs off!

Adam covers his mouth to avoid a shriek.

Another of the little ones, the light is dim, but they are obviously a child. Their outfit is made from the same material, but not arranged in an uniform.

"...The engine. We wanna know how it works."

"Oh, have you two asked grandpa?"