Jade lowered herself past Lower Eleven's first address bell.
Common down kept the rope straight beneath Tower Five. The roadback fell beside it in broken rooms. Cooking shelves, sleeping walls, and pen rails moved at different speeds while their household cords tried to keep them one street.
Above Jade, Ty's right leg remained inside Dimitri's outer ring. She could see the white band around his shin whenever Tower Five passed through the gaps.
At his ribs, the inner ring waited. Jade spent the sight of it and descended toward Lower Eleven's sleeping wall.
Three people remained tied across the wall. Hessa Dorn held a brass plate against her chest. Pavi Sorn had both arms beneath Mikel's shoulders while a collapsed frame pinned Mikel's left leg.
Jade's deathward opened behind her damaged eye.
