Location:Emberholt Province — The Subsidence Throat, Nest Eleven
Date/Time:13 Voidmarch, 9942 AZI — First Light
Realm:Lower Realm
Yinxin had not said anything about the helmet until Jayde put it on.
They were at the mouth of the throat in the gray before dawn, and the kit had come out of the ring one piece at a time — the frame first, struts and hydraulics and the power cell that Zhi had confirmed cool-dim eleven months ago in a dead room three hundred miles under a mountain; then the laminated chitin over the top of it; then the head unit, which she had not worn since the day the seal opened and had carried up out of that hole anyway.
She seated it, and turned it on, and the world went blue.
