Xavier stepped down first, boots hitting concrete that looked poured decades ago and patched a hundred times since. He took a slow look around, eyes moving from the rail lines to the overhead cranes, to the crowds flowing through the platforms with the kind of purpose you only see in places that never sleep.
"Yeah," he muttered. "This is definitely Jupiter's real underworld."
Klatos let out a short breath and shook his head. "Just because it's underground doesn't make it the underworld. And I've lived on this planet my whole life. I've never heard of a facility this big beneath Helior Prime."
"That's exactly why it's here," Xavier replied, eyes still scanning the space. "Helior Prime is the only place it makes sense. Too much traffic, too many factions, too many species moving through one point. Everything disappears into the noise. You hide a hub like this under a quiet city and it gets noticed. You hide it under chaos and it becomes invisible."
