The north interior blast wall completed at three in the afternoon.
Michael stood in the lobby and looked at it and felt the turret coverage analysis update in the Blueprint Interface overlay, the gap closing fully, the north face defense picture becoming what it needed to be.
Shin was beside him.
She had been on the anchor point coordination all day with Rei and the wall was clean because of it, no misaligned sections, no anchor depth variations, every panel seated correctly and confirmed before the next one went in.
He looked at the wall and thought about Shin walking the floors alone three days ago looking for defensive gaps and arriving at this exact place by a route that had nothing to do with being told to.
"Good work today," he said.
She looked at the wall. "It was straightforward once you explained the sequence," she said.
"It wasn't straightforward," he said. "You made it look that way."
