The Construct—formerly a Demonic megacity—however towering its greatest structures, was wider than it was tall. When Vee couldn’t find a more direct route to a higher level, she was often obliged to cover a great deal of ground laterally before finally discovering a viable means of ascent. Thus, she crisscrossed back and forth between the many former buildings of Tartarus, sometimes merely connected by bridge-like walkways, other times the buildings expanded so that they lay flank to flank with each other, or with their separating walls removed altogether. She occasionally encountered single rooms so immense that their far walls lay beyond the extent of her vision, misted with distance, rooms that themselves might contain a small town. On the 83rd level, Vee encountered a building that she had never been inside before, and which seemed to lie on what would have been the furthermost border of the city. She entered it through a tube-like corridor of black metal, lit by fluorescents, which finally gave ingress into a large round chamber.
