The shaft sealed behind Cael with a sound like a throat closing.
Yuna stood at the edge of the dark stone, her spatial senses still pressed against the opening, tracking his descent until the dimensional interference from the seal swallowed his signature. The bioluminescent veins in the stone pulsed faster. The ground trembled with a rhythm that was not geological. Something was happening below. Something vast.
Then the signature vanished entirely, and she was alone with the team and the amber sky and the weight of a twenty-four hour promise she had no intention of keeping.
'He's reached the bottom,' she said. 'The seal's interference is blocking me. I can't read anything past it.'
'Can you read what's coming toward us?' Seran asked.
Yuna turned.
The Breaker was facing east, back alo
