Karrakas didn't turn from the window.
"There should have been a patrol by now," he said.
Lukas set down his rations. "How long has it been?"
"Long enough." Karrakas kept his eyes on the street. "Patrols in the Undercity run on a consistent cycle. They come out at regular intervals, and on predictable routes. That's how the dungeon works."
"If you stay in one place too long without clearing the street, the patrols accumulate. You'd have more and more of them building up outside until you have no choice but to fight your way out." He finally turned from the window. "That's why you can't simply sleep in this dungeon without posting guards and managing the streets around you."
"Maybe the dungeon reset its timing when it rearranged itself," Akira said. "The layout shifted twice. Maybe the patrol cycles shifted with it."
