After ordering Axiom to teleport them, Bruce and Sophie found themselves inside the labyrinth.
Sophie spread her aura the moment her feet touched the Labyrinth floor, letting it unfurl through the corridors. The presences came to her in layers, the vast, ranked multitude she had expected, but also stranger things, deeper signatures she could not name. She could not sense everything; the labyrinth was too large for that. But what she could sense, she read carefully.
Not one hostile presence among them.
Tamed, then. Or loyal. Or duplicated through Bruce's mirrored surgeon's craft, she remembered that, the day his body talent awakened, the unsettling beauty of watching him copy a thing's living architecture from nothing. She had felt the same hush in the air then.
Now, standing inside Axiom diamond core, she finally understood why he had chosen this place.
