The relay pushed a route through the fourth fold, and the wall closed on the command before the class had stepped.
"The instructor console dropped its feed to three units at once, and the floor sealed the corridors it was about to route them through," Diana said, holding the split relay wide across both tiers.
[ Ascendant Hall certified class: instructor relay offline on the broken tier. Authorized command unavailable. Units isolated across three sealed corridors. Formation holding last order. ]
"Three floors back I priced this account, and it comes due now," Vasa said, marking the three isolated pockets onto the records glass one at a time. "Every rank on that tier stands on its last authorized step, the voice they wait on gone quiet, and the floor spent two turns to fold the walls instead of throwing a single monster at the ground, so the cost lands as position and not as damage I can name to a healer."
