PATIENT ZERO -The lone survivor
"A Gutter-rat who knows his physics. How novel. You have proven remarkably difficult to kill, Scribe. First you sabotage the Apex, unleashing a feral Calamity into my pristine corridors, and now you drown one of my finest blades."
"The Calamity is your problem now," Ren said. "I stopped the harvest."
"You delayed it," Aquila corrected, his voice dropping into a lethal, silken register. "The Spire is wounded, but it is not broken. You sit in the absolute dark, Scribe. You are a hundred floors deep. The elevators are sealed. The transit shafts are collapsed. Enjoy your victory in the abyss. You will rot down there with the rest of the failed experiments."