FailureLight pulsed along the runes like a heartbeat. It flowed up the walls and across the ceiling before pooling in the central support pillar, which pumped it through the ceiling with each pulse. “I guess we go up?” I said. I was not good at this. But I didn’t have time to worry about that now. I had to focus on more pressing matters, like my lost axe and shield. If I were lucky, Valence wouldn’t have removed them from the room. It had only been this morning, after all. So much had happened in one day. The room was spacious without the golems. An open floorplan, about 30 paces in diameter, empty now. I wondered if Marcus had managed to breach a gate, and let people escape. I had no way of knowing, of course. But it would be a relief to know that some people would still escape if I fa

