Location:The Western Plateau — The First Dead Field
Date/Time:15–17 Voidmarch, 9942 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm
The first one took two days to reach and eleven minutes to measure, and Yinxin did not believe a word of it.
Eden had walked forty paces onto the gray, set the handheld on a flat stone, and stepped back from it with her arms folded while it did whatever it did. Jayde had the head unit on, and the pane four inches from her eyes drew the edge of the field as a closed curve with a figure against it before either of them finished crossing the rim.
"Six hundred and ninety paces," Eden said. "Six ninety and a bit. Drain radius four hours at a walk. Gradient at the rim a third steeper than Eleven."
"Eleven minutes."
"Eleven minutes, and eight of them were the thermal averaging."
Yinxin looked at the small matte object on the stone. Then at six hundred yards of dead ground behind it, running out to a rim she could not see the far edge of without turning her head.
"No," she said.
