Nobody moved to break the silence for a long moment, which suited me fine, since I needed most of that moment to convince my own legs to stop shaking and get me upright without help. Noa Genesis stayed quiet against my forearm, watchful in the particular way it went quiet only when it judged that talking would cost more than it earned.
Threll spoke first, once I'd found my feet again.
"Sit, if you need to," it said. "I have no further interest in testing you today. What I just felt has answered more of my questions than a hundred more exchanges would have."
"You said you knew that resonance." I didn't sit. "Explain it."
