Run. Run!

It seems as if our assumptions were correct, Resident Hale.

And under the right circumstances,

Venta-Arythritol tetranitrate can create a reasonable exfiltration source in a facility such as Aristace.

Directly ahead, as fast as your feet can carry you, resident.

It is only once you crust the first ridge and put yourself out of the eye line of Erestus, that we can begin to feel somewhat more secure

in our situation.

Be very careful out here, Resident Hale.

The surface of Typhon is only passingly habitable, intended only to support life

long enough to get it back inside a tower. I suppose that is all we are trying to do for you.

However, your situation is a little outside the bounds of the status quo.

The surface here will grow inhospitably cold within the hour, and for all my capabilities

in this form, I dare say I would be hard pressed to help you survive hypothermia.

There, take a moment to orient yourself.

Cardinal directions have no meaning here, so you will need to navigate by landmark

if you would turn your head 52 degrees to the left.

There.

You see it, do you not?

A colossal obsidian pillar topped with a roiling cloud of silver that stretches impossibly far

into the hazy gray sky above.

That, resident Hale, that is Helcyon.

That is humanity's last best chance to avoid extinction.

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