Location:Growth Zone — Zone 3, Zone 4 approach
Date/Time:TC1856.01.12 (02:00 – 04:00)
The corridors branched.
Not randomly — with the deliberate logic of a circulatory system, main arteries splitting into smaller channels that split again, each one leading deeper into the organic architecture. The bioluminescent veins in the walls provided enough green light to navigate by but not enough to see clearly, and the shadows between the veins moved with the eight-second breathing rhythm, the corridor walls expanding and contracting in a slow pulse that made the shadows breathe too.
The floor was organic. Whatever stone had existed beneath the original city was gone — consumed, replaced, converted into living surface that absorbed their footsteps and yielded slightly beneath their weight. Walking through Zone 3 was like walking on the tongue of something enormous, the surface smooth and warm and faintly responsive to pressure, giving beneath the heel and recovering behind the toe.
