Chapter 302: Formation Zone One
The zone boundary showed in the Earth Depth Sense before it showed in the terrain.
Seven days out from Kael's Seat. The highland track narrowed between two stone ridges, the soil thin and stony beneath their boots. Since morning he had been reading the organism layer as they walked — burrowing colonies below, root systems threading the upper stone, highland birds working the ridge faces. The gene architecture in these organisms was denser than Kael's Seat had been. Thinner than the archive gorge. A middle ground, settling into itself.
Then the density changed.
