Chapter 341: Deeper
In the morning the team packed to turn west.
Kai did not pack. He stood at the edge of the archive field and looked down at ground he had not touched since the breakthrough. The pool had come back overnight — high, near full, fuller than it had felt before the change. He still did not know where its new floor was. He only knew the old one was gone.
He meant to learn it before they left.
"One descent," he told Soren. "Short. I want to read the archive in the new body before we go. And I want to know how far down my pool goes now."
Soren set an instrument at the field edge without comment. "I will record what rises. If anything rises." He paused. "Be careful with the floor. You have a habit of finding it the hard way."
"I'll find it the slow way this time."
