Chapter 36: Chapter 36 - Through Stilled Time

They descended level by level, with Naia calling breaks at regular intervals. Each pause became a chance for their Engineer and Tech to scan for life signs or energy signatures. The artifact's resonant tones grew steadily stronger, but the Navigator maintained her adapted control over the harmonics.

She liked to think that things were going well, but didn't want to be conceited. The dark haired woman was growing more certain as they approached that the answer for what happened to the squad was going to be unpleasant.

"I found the scanner near Lab Block C here."

Poros traced the path on Evander's holographic display.

"Scattered equipment suggests they were fleeing toward the lower maintenance tunnels. But the patches of harmonic stasis fields start appearing more frequently past that point."