Lucius placed the containment unit and a transponder in the nook of a cliff face, with the ocean crashing below. Cole didn’t know where he was, so he had no way of soul-walking to an Undivine location. The journey back to his bones was one he’d taken a thousand times. Despite that, he felt loss each time.
The code that released him from the prismatic field within SoS simultaneously freed him from the bounds of the device. Leaving him at the obscure location told of Lucius’s intention—he had no plans to recover the containment unit. And Lucius ensured that no one else could free him either. He would have spent eternity in the prison... or at least until the device failed.
What had Alyssalee done? As commander, as a mentor, as a friend, he was supposed to be doing the... He ground his teet
