The ancient space station's door opened silently, just as Gawain had said. The locks on the doors inside this section had been removed. Cassandra cautiously entered a room directly connected to the main hall, her gaze sweeping the surroundings.
Bright lights illuminated the long-unvisited place, with silver-white, light gray, and touches of blue accents being its primary colors. She judged that this could be a monitoring room or operational area—against the wall were many holographic projection devices emitting faint glows, and in the center there was a column-like device with a slanted top fitted with a crystal-like control panel whose function was completely incomprehensible.
And on the wall opposite the door, a particularly wide window was embedded. Outside the high-strength transparent polymer "glass" was darkness; it did not appear to be outer space.
