The observation port on the fourth ring was a disc of reinforced glass two hands across, set into the outer wall so engineers could look at the dome from inside.
Rhosyn stood in front of it a long time.
Through the glass there was open water. Black, empty, nothing in it except the dome lamps thinning out into the distance. It was a place, she could see it, and that was all her folds ever needed.
'Not too far. If I get this wrong, I will end up inside the shell.'
She opened the passage and stepped through.
The ocean closed around her from every direction.
Kilometres of water pressed down from above, and the only reason her body held together was the space she had formed around herself.
A thin shell surrounded her, barely separated from her skin, keeping the pressure outside. She wasn't strong enough to resist the ocean directly. She was simply keeping it from reaching her.
