*/ Third-Person Narration/*
The basin had gone quiet with that deep, particular quiet of things that had collectively decided they did not want to be noticed.
The Outsiders had stopped moving entirely, hundreds of those massive pulsating, invisible bodies standing completely motionless across the freezing basin with their tentacles slack and their shrieking cut off, forming a wide instinctive ring around the living quarters and the man standing in front of it as though something in their collective, unknowable intelligence had arrived at the same conclusion all at once-
Do not approach.
While Kaius stood fifty meters across the basin with his sword raised at the carpet of red-shimmering swords that had covered the sky.
