Crystal number forty-four held for four minutes and twelve seconds, and what it showed was the sky.
Lenna had moved the apparatus to the roof. The decision had been practical, the Experimental Optics Laboratory was underground, windowless, designed for light-controlled conditions. Ideal for calibration. Useless for the thing she needed to test next. She needed to know if the apparatus could capture something it had not been aimed at. Something that was not an engine piston cycling in a glass observation panel. Something that was not designed to be captured.
She pointed the lens at the Ashenveil skyline.
