The meeting was disassembled. Brains and the engineers went together to discuss the way forward. Four humans had just died almost instantly after entering the portal.
No human would retry that, even if the deal promised they would return to the world of the living.
But beneath the darkness of doubt, the mission had helped them gather some useful information—important data that would help with different calculations: the cold mist that froze anyone who entered inside, and the glowing beneath their feet. In a scientist's eyes, everything was a scattered puzzle waiting to be pushed together and fixed.
Alexander, after leaving the meeting room, moved through a long corridor almost absentmindedly. Its floor was glassy and dark. His sight was forward, fixed on a door that led to the Captain's office. He had not yet entered it since becoming the captain, and this was going to be his first time—the first time he would be enlightened about the deep secrets the Grid Lions might have.
