The bracket chamber opened exactly the way I'd written it down, which is always a slightly unsettling experience. One moment there were walls and a ceiling behaving like infrastructure, and the next they stepped back and lifted away all at once. The space expanded into something that didn't have any reasonable relationship to the corridor leading in. Brenne's halo didn't behave like a lantern in the larger volume. A lantern throws light outward. The halo just… made the chamber visible, like the light was already inside the room and we were catching up to it. The result was that the chamber wasn't lit so much as revealed, which I noted as a distinct category of experience.
The channel ran along the floor as a dark ribbon, exactly where I'd documented it.
