Location:Federation Primary Research Facility — Sub-Level Three
Date/Time:TC1853.12.01 (Sixth Hour — During the Strike)
The room was larger than she'd expected.
Not a corridor or a laboratory or an office. A hall. Sixty meters long, twenty wide, ceiling high enough that the blue light from the crystalline arrays cast shadows that reached three stories up the reinforced concrete walls. The hum she'd been following since the surface filled the space like a living thing — rhythmic, synchronized, pulsing through the floor and the walls and the air itself until the boundary between hearing it and feeling it dissolved.
