The chamber hummed like a living engine.
Jessica stood just inside the threshold, breath caught somewhere between terror and awe.
The room was circular, the walls smooth and metallic like the inside of a sealed vault. No windows.
No visible wiring. Just the low vibration of something enormous running beneath the floor.
At the center of the chamber rose the column.
Glass.
Tall enough to reach nearly to the ceiling.
Inside it, pale currents of light rotated slowly like galaxies trapped in a jar.
Symbols drifted through the glow __ numbers, names, fragments of data'
Jessica couldn't fully comprehend but somehow recognized as pieces of lives.
Births.
Deaths.
Moments.
Decisions.
Micah closed the door behind them.
The sound echoed sharply in the chamber.
For the first time since
