The entrance was not marked.
He identified it through process of elimination rather than through observation, the Observer producing the same incomplete circling read on the structure's entire exterior surface without resolution, and the entrance present only as the section of the surface where the incompleteness was slightly different in character, not more resolved but differently unresolved, the way a sealed door was different from a wall even when both surfaces looked identical.
He placed his palm against it.
No warmth. No recognition. No system notification. The contact was simply contact, his hand against a material that the Observer had nothing useful to say about and the Emperor's Pouch did not resonate with and the Slaughter Sovereign class did not register as either obstacle or approach path.
He pushed.
The entrance opened.
