The cathedral’s spires jutted so far upward, the two Guardians had difficulty discerning where the ceiling of the building ended and the interior of the planetoid began. The showroom was kept deliberately dim, and windows were nonexistent.
Where the outer foyer was opulent and breathtaking in its beauty, the inner sanctum containing the hundreds of HeartCrystals was plain. The dull, light gray walls had been carved with a thousand small niches only a couple of inches deep—each shelf just wide enough to hold a single crystal on a minute fabric pedestal.
As Star and Hunter stepped into the room, the doors behind them closed almost silently, and they found themselves surrounded by the dimness. Overhead they could hear the hum of single-body hovering platforms—the trained spotters they’d b
