The shaft went in at seven in the morning.
Michael had the northeast ground floor corner cleared by six forty five with Cole's group moving the lobby furniture and the stored materials that had accumulated in that corner over the past weeks.
He also confirmed the underground expansion blueprint and felt the system begin the construction sequence below the floor level.
It was different to watching a wall go up or a turret mount to the corner platform. Those were visible, immediate, the progress trackable by looking at them.
The underground expansion happened below the surface and the only indication that something was happening was a low sustained vibration through the lobby floor and the Blueprint Interface showing him the shaft descending in real time, meter by meter, the chamber dimensions opening up below ground with the particular efficiency of a system that had been built to make this possible.
