Location:Seven Peaks — Formation Hall, Refining Annex, Command Center, Diplomatic Annex
Date/Time:TC1857.01.28 – TC1857.01.30
The formation hall at Seven Peaks made a noise you stopped hearing inside a week and could not stop hearing once somebody pointed it out to you, and Raven had made the mistake of pointing it out to herself on the flight home and had been listening to it for two days since.
Not a hum. A pressure, low down, under the floor and under the boots, the sound of something perfectly regular doing what it had been built to do without any margin left over for doubt.
Silas had not slept. That was legible before she had crossed the room.
"Say it before I ask," she said.
