Location:Mid Ring, Vel'thari Containment — Dead Spot, Deeper Debris Field
Date/Time:Late Ashwhisper, 9941 AZI — Month 3 of the Harrowing
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The smell hit before the light did.
Recycled air. Stale, metallic, carrying the faint chemical signature of atmospheric scrubbers that had been running on minimal power for longer than anything should have been able to run on minimal power. Jayde stopped at the hatch and breathed it in, and the breath went all the way down to the bottom of a sixty-year career and landed there like a key fitting a lock.
