They came in to Ronan on the middle island from three directions, and he put the Ward up once, and they went through the dome one after another like people going through a doorway.
`[ACCUMULATING — 0%]` ×5
Nobody stopped moving. Finn was already looking at the next jump. Cillian was counting what was left above them — "three Slingers, two right, one far left." Maeve said "broken ring" once, quietly, to herself.
James looked at the rest of the gallery and found the next two blights: one on a low island off to the left, one across on the right, further forward.
And as he looked, he saw the channels.
They were in the underside of the central island — the rock was open there, broken — and in the gaps, thin dull red lines ran through the stone and out of it and on through the next island, and the next, going toward the door.
*Still going.*
He left it.
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The second half went differently, and nobody had to say how.
