James had spent four days not finding anything out.
He had gone back through the Floor 25 recording twice. He had read the Bureau's Caerleon file, which was six pages long and said nothing. He had asked two people at the Guild who knew about Tower phenomena, and both of them had asked him to describe the colour again and then gone quiet.
Nobody had a name for it. Nobody had seen it anywhere except under Caerleon.
Except it had not been under Caerleon. It had been in a dry valley on Floor 28, three floors and one dead kingdom away, coming up through cracks in pale stone.
`[TEAM ZERO]`
`[JAMES GANNER — CONFIRMED]`
`[FINN HALE — CONFIRMED]`
`[MAEVE CALLAHAN — CONFIRMED]`
`[RONAN CLEARY — CONFIRMED]`
`[CILLIAN WARD — CONFIRMED]`
`[TEAM COMPLETE — 5 / 5]`
Alice was at the door before he stood up.
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Floor 29 went uphill.
