[Transit Corridor — Floor 30 to Floor 31]
[Processing: Landmark Clear — Record Dissemination Active]
[Mana Regeneration: In progress]
[Stat Integration: COMPLETE]
The transit corridor held us for eight minutes.
The System's notification said landmark event, processing time extended, please remain. It had never said that before on any floor I had cleared. The corridor was featureless white with nothing to do, nowhere to go, and eighty-six people in various states of post-floor recovery standing in it.
Grey found me within the first minute. She checked my arm without asking — pressing the cloth I had been holding against the scar aside to look at the wound underneath — and then spent four minutes on it with the focused quiet of someone working a problem that was genuinely difficult. The old scar from the Kraken had been reopened twice now. Whatever the underlying tissue damage was, it was deep enough that even Tower-grade healing magic could only close the surface.
