The Surrogate’s Blade
A deep dim glow resolves out of the black below us, blue-white and vast, the lit underside of something enormous built into the wall of the world, and as we sink toward it the scale of it keeps refusing to stop, lights upon lights upon lights, a city’s worth of them, burning at the bottom of an ocean that has never known the sun.
And in the south face of it, a door is opening for us. It does not open like a hatch.
The whole thing irises, slow and wet, a great circular aperture dilating in the lit hull, ringed with structures that move as it widens, and the dim light spills out of it across the falling sub and lights all our faces at once, and I understand, watching it open, why Leo did not w
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