"Don't look up," Marcus said, which was the advice of someone who had looked up and had determined that looking up was not improving the quality of the running.
"Why not," Kael said.
"Because what's up there is coming down regardless of whether you look at it and looking at it will only slow you down."
Kael did not look up. This was the correct decision and he had made it before Marcus had finished the sentence.
The corridor they were running through had been one of the sealed passages during the Harvester's herding phase—a corridor that the facility had closed behind them during the approach to the Core, that had been opened by the evacuation route protocol when the Warden's recognition triggered it.
