Book 6. Chapter 54: Arrival
The ‘trading’ outpost had a few things I should have noticed from a distance.
Mites were at it again and they brought back an old favorite of theirs. Same thing they had at the base of the world tree far off in the distance, and the same thing they had hanging around Capra’Nor.
First: Rocks are supposed to fall down, not float around.
Second: Rocks don’t zoom around in lazy circles.
And third: The above two aforementioned rocks shouldn’t be the size of three Wraths hiding in a fruit box.
Yes, that’s an official term of measurement and I’ll convince and gaslight anyone into believing it too.
Floating rocks were apparently common knowledge here, since not a single greyroamer seemed to think it odd, nor did Kres and neither did Drakonis. It was just known occasionally rocks flew around and gravity was weaker. It’d been that way their entire life, and would continue to be that way until the mites decided to get more creative.
Said rocks flowed all around the ruins of the starship. Besides those and everything being in a forest, the site felt like an expedition from the surface. Although this kind of tech was never found up there, nothing that could be used to go past the stars ever made it to the surface. Knowing what I know about mites, how they make deals with just about everyone including Tsuya, that was probably intentional.
A small part of my head was deeply morbidly curious to what tech could be scavenged from deep within the derelict. Items that were clearly forbidden to the surface, and now I was walking among it.