Havi Dren reached copper soil with both feet while the soil climbed beneath him.
Dera Koss caught his shirt and dragged him off the two gauge rails. Socket Six's dry scar bench tilted until its west edge struck the wall. Irik Vann held the middle-channel rope with both hands and kept the cleared floor from becoming a slide.
North's movement lifted the fields beyond them.
Crop beds rose in rows. Older frames rocked inside loose collars, letting roots and irrigation tubes move with the living surface. House Sixteen's rigid pins pulled red tissue upward and held its walls down.
At Lower Gate, House Seven's cistern collar split through the chalk line.
Havi took Irik's middle stair toward Ura Vem. He carried no Basalt tool or order. Dera kept the living route's far stop, and Tarr Meki kept six people off the tilting strip behind it.
Ura turned a roof camera toward House Seven.
