The chamber was quiet.
Not the quiet of an enclosed space that absorbed sound. The quiet of a space where the organizing principles present were so precisely arranged that they did not produce interference with each other, the multiple Laws of the chamber's composition held in their specific orientations without the friction that different organizing principles might have been expected to generate when placed in proximity at this concentration.
He sat.
The sitting was not a decision made after entering. It was the natural response to the chamber's interior, the quality of the space communicating its appropriate behavior the way the Fifth Gate's room had communicated sitting in the chair. He sat in the center of the chamber and felt the multiple Laws of its composition present around him at their concentrated depth and let them be present without reaching toward them or analyzing them or doing anything other than being inside them.
