The trek up from Deep Karakorum had taken them through the massive, horizontal elevator shafts of the fallen skyscraper that served as the roof of their base. They hadn't traveled miles to the 405 highway Sky-Reef today; they were exploring their own vertical backyard. Over a hundred millennia, the upper floors of the toppled high-rise had been completely reclaimed by the forest canopy, transforming the ruined corporate architecture into its own localized Sky-Reef.
Will stepped through the rusted, moss-choked frame of what used to be an executive atrium and stopped dead. The floor dropped away into a massive, hollowed-out mega-mall, but the physics of the space were entirely broken.
