Frost, the southern port, within the secret facility deep underground, unrelated personnel had already evacuated the site, while Agatha and Tyrion were waiting for Duncan's arrival.
Behind them loomed the massive machine secretly constructed by the former city hall—an egg-shaped pressure hull, firmly fixed between the beams with steel cables, with light spilling from the ceiling onto the metallic shell of the submersible, giving it an ice-cold, silent glow.
Silence enveloped the hall, and after a moment of tense waiting, Agatha suddenly lifted her head, her ethereal, hoarse voice breaking the stillness, "He's here."