Inside, the walls of the inner scaffolding grew in spirals and interconnected passageways, a tight lattice of mineralized cells. He was drawn deeper until the inner walls caught him. The outer folds of the Seething parted around him and swallowed up all sight of the ship. Then he pushed off the shuttle's surface and dove inside. He checked his leadline, hooked into his hip and tethering him to the ship. Just in case Drift did get out of there first. Then he made ready to follow him.ĭrift's shuttle was a mess solar scars and dents and what looked like plasmafire littering its surface, so Ratchet didn't feel bad getting out his laser scalpel and burning a message onto the doorway. For a moment he entertained the fantasy that if he waited for a few minutes Drift would emerge without assistance. It wasn't fear of what lay beyond it was a sensible distrust of any location described in the texts as "an unexplored and deadly labyrinth". Bound at anchor, he found the ship empty at the edge of the Seething Space.
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