MECHANTARES 5

"I was noticing before, splits before intersections and areas with multiple rooms."


I looked down at the floor, then closed my eyes for a few seconds. In bold, crisp yellow, words and symbols appeared across the pink-black of my closed eye.


I selected 'map'.


I saw the map of the complex, and it moved somewhat unintuitively, as my eye motions panned around the complex, shifting my focus as if looking at something distant to look at lower floors, shifting it to look at something closer to me to look at the upper floors, which were mostly grayed out rooms with question marks.


"The rest of this place is so neat and tidy," Rain said. "But external wiring? Even though it's white and camouflaged?"


"Rebuilt section," Sveta said. "This part must have collapsed when Scion came through. Let me-"


Parts highlighted.


"Does it help us to know that?" I asked.


"They might not have the same purpose they used to. A lot of this was Engel getting a tour of the lower level and making guesses, what I remembered from when we interrogated some people who had been in here, and what Weld, Egg and I all saw when we passed through during the attack. No guarantees."


"Even less guarantees if this was torn down and rebuilt," Capricorn said. "This area might not be low risk."


When I opened my eyes, the map faded to a simple outline, there if I looked for it, a faint imprint on my vision otherwise. I looked at Rain, and saw one of his eyes was glowing more brightly. Sveta had an eye that was a brilliant cyan blue, like the sky or ocean water. Capricorn had an intense blue light coming through one slot of his helmet's visor. Ashley had the usual eyes that were completely white, smoking at the edges.


And my own eye was a golden yellow.


I blinked twice to dismiss the effect, looking back.

- Dying 15.1