The bunker is dying.
With the destruction of the singularity drive, the localized gravitational field it had been generating collapses inward. The heavy titanium walls groan, buckling under the sudden, immense pressure of the surrounding Alpine bedrock. The air turns freezing, the moisture in the room instantly crystallizing into a blinding, swirling blizzard of ice shards.
Move! Kade roars, his physical voice barely audible over the shrieking metal.
He scoops Lilith up in his arms. The ancient Moonwright is dead weight, her magical core completely depleted from inverting the harmonic sphere. Her silver hair is plastered to her pale face, her breathing shallow and ragged.
Kieran is already at the breached vent, his amber eyes glowing fiercely in the strobe-light flashes of failing emer
