The settlement had taken shape through the application of excess toward the production of impressiveness.
Bone-reinforced structures rose across the compound's interior in tight clusters, the material coming from Galdr Source Beasts whose skeletons carried residual Source energy that the builders had incorporated deliberately, the walls and housing units and storage facilities all carrying the faint ambient warmth of things built from formerly powerful things.
The Superbius quarters were the tallest. The Ira barracks were the widest. The Acedia administrative structures sat between them with the functional sobriety of builders who had been told to make something useful and had done exactly that and nothing more.
Together they formed a settlement that communicated, without any particular subtlety, the hierarchy of the beings occupying it.
Dietrich moved through it quickly.
