The drive east was a blur of speed and escalating panic.
Rin sat in the driver's seat, the neural helmet buzzing against his skull as the Void-Runner ate up the kilometers between Namibia and South Africa. Above them, the Dungeon Moon hung in the sky like a swollen bruise, its blue light washing out the stars and messing with the vehicle's sensors.
[System Alert: Gravity Fluctuations Detected]
[Moon Proximity: 84%]
[Tidal Forces: Increasing]
"The ocean is going to swallow the coast if that thing gets any closer," Nyx said, looking at the data on her wrist comp. "Tides are already rising twenty feet."
"We're heading inland," Rin said, drifting the APC around a crater where a chunk of the Kalahari had simply failed to render. "If the coast floods, we're dry."
"Unless the Siphon in Joburg turns the city into a crater," Tayo pointed out from the navigator seat.
A groan came from the back.
"Medical," Joy called out. "Sleeping Beauty is awake."
