"Welcome" Kori said. "This is…"
"The Heart of the Lotus."
With a breath of conditioned air coming from inside, the door finished opening.
The first thing they saw was white.
Not sterile white. Lived-in kind of white. Polished floors that held light and returned it with a pretty glare. Matte walls stitched with thin seams between reinforced panels. The corridor ran straight for twenty steps, then opened and kept opening until you couldn't even see the end. Bridges crossed above at irregular intervals, wherever they were most needed. Elevators moved inside glass columns. Rooms branched off in every single possible direction, and some rooms branched into more.
The place didn't have an end. It always had more.
Nobody spoke. Not even Arashi.
They stepped through as a group. Kori waited just inside, letting their eyes adjust.
