The Rift had been still for thirty-eight hours.
He had checked the director's monitoring data three times across the previous day and each time the reading was the same: 218 metres, no autonomous movement, the oscillation amplitude holding at the elevated baseline that had persisted since the Ch.149 event. Accumulation, the director had suggested. He had been right about the pattern before.
Kai went into zone fourteen at first light.
Solo contract. Three Stone Warder kills in the central section, standard material targets. He was on the second Warder when Extended Hunter's Instinct registered the change.
Not the Rift's position. Its quality.
