The bracket section felt different on the way back. I noticed it immediately, which meant something had changed even if I couldn't name it yet. I spent a few steps working it out before it settled. The field residue in the walls was behind us now, not ahead. That shifted the entire experience. Going in, it felt like evidence of someone working. Coming out, it felt like work that had already been finished.
Sera walked through it like it belonged to her. More specifically, like she had made it. She didn't look back.
Voss looked back twice. Both times, he wrote something down.
He'd been writing since the chamber.
"The east wall residue at the transition point," he said, already halfway through a note, "is denser than I had it documented from inside the chamber. The angle changes the read. I have interior data, but this gives me an external comparison point I didn't have."
He finished writing and nodded to himself. "That's useful."
