The Sunken Sea had once been the terrifying, apocalyptic epicenter of a broken world. Five years ago, during the absolute height of the cosmic audit, the ocean had been a violent, glitching nightmare of floating water columns, boiling red static, and catastrophic hydrostatic collapse. It was the exact location where Caspian and Lucian had nearly been erased by the original Architects while securing the planetary hardware.
Today, it was absolutely, breathtakingly flawless.
The restored Sunken Sea stretched out toward the horizon as a massive, unbroken expanse of crystalline sapphire water. The gentle waves rolled rhythmically against the pristine white sand of a highly secluded, deeply sheltered coastal cove. The sky above was a brilliant, unblemished summer blue, completely free of any jagged formatting code or descending geometric fleets.
It was the perfect environment for a highly anticipated, highly delayed family milestone.
