The space beyond the door defied everything I thought I understood about architecture, physics, and basic reality.We emerged onto a platform that overlooked... there was no word for it. An inverted pyramid, vast beyond comprehension, suspended in absolute darkness. The structure was made of the same black stone as the Path, but polished to a mirror shine that reflected light sources I couldn't identify. And within the pyramid, visible through walls that seemed solid and transparent simultaneously, I could see levels. Hundreds of levels. Thousands. Each one containing something different—laboratories, living quarters, archives, things I couldn't identify.At the apex of the pyramid—which, given that it was inverted, meant the lowest point—there was a single room. The boardroom, presumably. Our destination."Time displacement detected," Dad said, his instruments going haywire. "Inside the pyramid, time is moving approximately forty thousand times fast
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