Location:Seven Peaks — Eastern Terrace
Date/Time:TC1856.01.17 (Evening)
The conversation wasn't about the door.
Raven brought tea to the eastern terrace because Kairos had been in the Formation Hall for three straight days and Coop had physically removed him at Mira's insistence. The Cognitect had said something about "mortal bodies requiring maintenance cycles" and Kairos had said something about maintenance being "an inefficient allocation of consciousness" and Coop had said nothing else but had stood in the doorway until Kairos picked up his sword and left.
He appeared ten minutes later. Sword across his back. Crystal dust on his robes. The slightly bewildered expression of a being who had been forcibly ejected from his work by an eighty-four-year-old with cybernetic eyes and no patience for cosmic stubbornness.
"Coop threatened to recalibrate my dimensional resonators with a hammer," he said.
"Coop doesn't make threats. He makes promises."
