Chapter SixteenRahne wiped the sweat from his brow before grasping the top of the sensor rod with both hands, twisting it downwards so that it fit neatly into the narrow hole Davin had just made in the cave floor.
After using his strange handheld device to determine where each of the twenty-six rods would be placed—which seemed to be in as near a perfect circle surrounding the Nexus as they could make—Davin tasked Sen with helping him use the portable device he'd brought from the Talon to drill through the rock. Much to Rahne's surprise, the machine easily penetrated the stone without cracking it, though he had to fold his hands over his ears to drown out the reverberations of the driller's “motor”, which made more noise than the hoof beats of a thousand merychs. Then, once the hole was c
