Chapter 655: The Minute That Would Not Die
The second route ran east and downward, and for twenty minutes it was the easiest walking any of them had done since the corridor closed.
The spatial anchor held. The path stayed a path. Mo Rui's stakes measured what they should measure, and Vyra's count agreed with the nexus through one full pulse interval. Ira said aloud that she was starting to enjoy herself.
Then a chip of stormglass fell off the terrace wall ahead of them and struck the stone with a small clear sound.
Forty seconds later it fell again.
Leon stopped the column.
"Mo Rui. Did you see that?"
"See what, Senior Brother?"
"The chip."
"What chip?"
Xie Lan had seen it. So had Loriel and Seraphine. Nobody else had, and the chip was lying on the terrace where it had fallen, and there was only one of it.
Forty seconds later it fell a third time, from a wall it was already lying beneath.
"Nobody move," said Leon.
