The map hung over Finn's basement table with the western settlement still burning red.
James walked around to the side where the red marker sat and put two fingers against it.
[SELECTION UNAVAILABLE]
[DECISION REQUIRED UPON FLOOR 23 ENTRY]
He tried the eastern marker instead, and got the same two lines. He tried the central one, and the map did not even bother repeating itself.
"It's a preview," he said. "We can look at it, and that's all we can do with it. Whatever's happening to that village is going to keep happening until we walk in there and pick."
Then the whole thing folded inward, three settlements and forty miles of road collapsing into a single thin line of light, and the line went out.
Cillian kept staring at the empty air above the table.
"Right," he said. "So the Tower does trailers now."
