He found her where the deeper interior's density began its approach to the levels he had not yet reached, standing at a point in the landscape where the Law-matter's character shifted in the way the high-density region's threshold had shifted, the gradient from the stage-above-established territory into something richer that he had not yet had reason to enter.
She was looking at it.
Not with the examination quality she had brought to the post-collapse formation or the seventh column. With the specific quality of someone who was making a decision rather than gathering information, the assessment already complete and the remaining work being the decision itself.
He stopped beside her.
"You've been further in," he said.
