The darkness wasn't simply an absence of light, it pressed against us like a delinquent wall. Asides from the oppressive pressure that threatened to cause my knee to buckle, for a moment, it felt like the darkness itself had seeped into my lungs.
'Breathe!'
I expanded outward, letting my spirit sensitivity seep from my skin like heat, feeling the space around me the way a spider feels its web. The hangar hall stretched in my mind, vast and hollow, the geometry of it assembling itself in slow pulses. The pipes, walkways and the cold seam of a blast door somewhere to the left.
Then them.
Four. No — six. Spreading out as they moved, which meant they already knew exactly where we were.
Undoubtedly, they were the few people I had freed earlier and the remaining experts of the ship…
I held still and reached for them, pressing my Enhanced Senses tighter around their shapes to get a read — and that was when I felt it. Or rather, when I didn't.
