The world went away, but instead of floating in darkness, Malz found herself standing in an endless expanse of light grey.
What is this? she asked, only to find her words came out more as thoughts.
As if in response, the same unknown runes that ran along Kiryu and Ferro's suits appeared on a panel of blue light, which spelled out a single word.
On the right, a new screen appeared, one that showed what she assumed to be a complete set of the runes along with their corresponding runes in Common. Below the letters were numbers, all written in Angelic numerals with no Common counterparts. The two numeric scripts were near enough in shape to be recognized anyway.
But it's not Angelic... these are Arabic numerals... the knowledge from the necklace rose, allowing her to correct her thinking. At least the punctuation was also standard.
On the left of the central screen, yet another screen appeared, its runes greyed out.
