Chapter 294: Soren's Problem
The morning was cold and quiet. Mist sat low in the highland, thick enough to hide the ridge lines until they were twenty meters away. The group walked without talking.
Kai tracked the world through his feet.
He had not been able to stop doing this since the absorption. The Earth Depth Sense read constantly — passively, without cost — and every living thing in contact with the ground registered as a distinct pattern. The bird walking through the grass ahead of them. A family of burrowing animals ten meters to his left, three of them pressed together in the warmth of a shared underground space. A larger animal — something like a deer — moving parallel to their path fifty meters out, its gene architecture a clean column of information he had no category for yet.
He noted the reading. Set it aside.
