They finished the sweep in the early afternoon and found two more formations on the lower sub-level, both showing the same residual quality as the first. Cael didn't touch either of them. He mapped them with the Cartographer's Eye and noted their positions relative to the Fracture's primary rift crystal in the core chamber, which was dimmer than it should have been for a B-tier designation, its output reduced to something closer to D-tier.
The guild's instruments had been reading a pressure drop and calling it sensor drift. The Fracture was dying. He sat with that on the transit back to the staging area and then through the debrief, which Yuna ran with the crisp efficiency of someone saving the real conversation for afterward, and then in the coffee place three blocks from the complex whe
