[The Silent Threshold — Seventh Space — Day 68 — 6:00 AM]
Alex arrived at the seventh space before anyone else.
[F1 Corruption: 89%]
[F4 Corruption: 58%]
[F5 Corruption: 24%]
The same numbers as when they had arrived at the Eastern Island.
Two months of ocean training sustained even after yesterday's record price.
Grim on his shoulder.
The crimson flames at their highest point in the arc since the Academy corridor — the brightness they had when something important was happening or about to happen.
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The seventh space was silent.
The omnidirectional spiritual plane of the circular space — which yesterday had been saturated with the Threshold's transmission — was different this morning. Not quieter. More oriented.
As if the completed transmission had changed the space's state. The Threshold had finished saying what it had to say. Now it waited.
"Do you feel it?" said Alex.
**"Yes."** Grim. **"F7 feels that the transmission is complete."**
"How do you know?"
