"Good," Kael said, and the word carried more relief than he wanted it to.
"Now then…"
Once again, the space around him shifted.
Not a flash, not a pull, just that sickening sensation of reality deciding you're elsewhere now. The council room vanished like it had never existed, and he found himself back in the same room he was in before.
Looking at the room now, the zombie was the least important feature.
That thought almost made him laugh, because a few minutes ago the zombie had felt like a looming future, a warning sign of the floor's apocalypse. Now it was just a body in the corner, a problem temporarily postponed.
The room itself was uglier in detail than his memory had bothered to process: several giant boxes all around it, each of them humming with energy, except a couple that seemed stale, dead, like they'd been unplugged from purpose. Servers to manage the electricity that was miraculously still functional in this god-forsaken place.
