The last seventeen Guards did not get far at all.
Noah ran them down across the Basal Floor one volley at a time, and one by one the bright points on Ruination's lattice went out, until the lattice held nothing at all but the thing in the north. Their Lesser Kryos came to him in handfuls. He fused them as they came, four into one, and sent every Kryos away to his people until none were left to send.
Then he ate what the Tide gave back!
All fifty-five Guards of THE Basal Floor have been granted death.|
|Lesser Kryos received: 550. Kryos Existential Chorionic Gonadotropins fused and given: 137. The two Lesser Kryos remaining have been given as well.|
|THE Tide That Owes Nothing has answered, though gifts weigh less due to power discrepancy.|
|Quintessential Existential Chorionic Gonadotropins received and integrated since the first volley: 90. Total integrated: 156.|
|THE Osmontian Culmination. Present saturation: 34%.|
