Chapter 115: Arches
“No. Really?” Necia stepped up and put her hand to the stone. “Who could possibly find this, Tulland?”
“Anybody who was walking through this thicket. Although I don’t know why anyone would,” Tulland answered.
“Even if they did, it doesn’t seem fair. If we had stepped through it, would we just have been warped to some other place? It’s like a trap. There aren’t supposed to be any traps on this floor. It’s supposed to be safe.”
“True, but who could stop The Infinite from doing it if it wanted to? It’s not like there’s a court we can drag it into.” Tulland pulled his belt knife out and poked at the arch experimentally. “Thing is that I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. When you can’t see something but it’s set up in a place where it’s certain to surprise you, that’s a trap. When you can’t see it unless you look for it, it’s hidden. You conceal a trap. You hide treasure. I just have to figure out a way to confirm that.”
“Ask your guy.” Necia pointed at her own head. “See what he says.”
“You’d trust it?”
“I’d trust it if it had a way to get it to tell us without The Infinite stepping in.”
Well? What do you say?
There’s nothing I can do to force The Infinite to do anything. At most, I could petition for you in a situation where you were being abused by its decisions.