Zeus arrived in the native-level space between floors 106 and 107.
The native-level space that the convergence completion had opened to Kang Min was also accessible to beings that had been in the upper architecture long enough to have developed partial native access — not full convergence, but the accumulated tenure of centuries in the Tower's domain producing a familiarity with the architecture that approximated native access in specific functional ways.
Zeus had been in this architecture for a very long time.
The presence arrived without announcement and without the observation-to-approach quality that the other upper hierarchy contacts had carried. Not cautious, not aggressive. Territorial in the specific way of something that was in its own space encountering something that was also in its own space, the two territories overlapping in a zone that neither of them had previously shared with the other.
He stopped in the native-level transit between floors and turned.
