Chapter 295: Walk West
Day three.
The sun came over the ridge late. The group was already walking by the time it reached the valley floor.
Kai walked with his attention below.
The Earth Depth Sense had not turned off. He had tried, the first morning of the return, to narrow it — the way he could narrow the carrier function's read to a specific area when precision mattered more than range. The skill had narrowed. It had not turned off. It had settled on its baseline: thirty meters of continuous organism read, zero cost, always present.
He was beginning to accept this.
The highland on the western side of the gorge territory was the same terrain they had crossed three weeks before — compressed rock, shallow soil, sparse grass — but the way he read it had changed. What had been a geological picture with organism traces was now an organism picture with geological structure beneath. The life was at the front. The stone was behind it.
He could see the distribution.
