Chapter 12 The Landlord's Potion

• The Thirteenth Mezzanine burned with harsh red light. The words carved into the floor oozed thick, dark sap. They screamed one message:
• THE OWNER HAS ARRIVED EARLY.
• Marlow Reed stood still at the hall’s end. Examiner Edric Voss lay twitching on the ground; his mind shattered after glimpsing the endless void that had stared through the aperture. The giant eye of the Outside had closed, but its weight remained. The factory walls groaned. Cracks spread through the beams. Harrow & Venn was breaking apart.