It felt rather strange to actually see the mine. Having spent the last several weeks working on a scheme to defraud a mine owner, she had learned a little but this was the first time she had actually seen one. It wasn't tremendously impressive to look at There was a large cave carved into the side of a cliffside at a steep downward angle. Rusted iron rails protruded from it like the tongue of a great monster. Wooden works, half rotted now were clustered around large piles of spoil and several run down looking sheds. A wooden fence, still mostly intact circled the area and a large sign of painted timber could barely be interpreted to read: Sawgrass Mine - Nuln Exploration Company.

"Well it isn't very impressive to look at," Emmaline commented, somewhat impoliticly. Otto stiffened at the percieved insult and then regained his control.

"You must imagine it not as it is, but as it will be, as soon as my friend Pendergast, brings his supplies and hires workmen, it will be a river of silver," he declared confidently. 'Pendergast' was almost certainly on a barge up river by now, which was where Emmaline wished she was now, though after all Otto's groping she wished she could stick around to watch his humiliation.

"Alright boy make your inspection," he ordered Neil. 

"Lady Von Vissenbach, I have taken the liberty of packing a picnic for us, my men will lay it out for us."