The hum under the Hall of Welcome sharpens into a grid. Pale runes bleed up through warped floorboards, and the bedrock below answers with a clean, geometric glow.
Sable crouches with the Ledger, both of them tracing the pattern at once. The lines are not random, they are a map, and they are locking onto Kynes's marked hand.
Kynes
This is keyed to me.
The floor dips, then snaps level, as if the room briefly forgets what shape it is. A thin seam opens in the glowing pattern, showing a depthless dark beneath the hall.
Sable
It is pulling on the void-well again. If it completes the shape, it will reopen a path through you.
Ledger
Witness confirmed. The architecture is reclaiming its anchor, and something else is riding the claim.
Above the seam, Kynes's palm flares, and the pattern widens like an eye. The next pulse will either seal the hall to his will, or drag the Architects back through his connection.
Expose the source of the void anchor
Seal the Hall of Welcome against the void-well