Waybound (Cradle, #12)

by Will Wight

“We’re missing a name!” Mercy cried. Dross drifted over. [Oh, I’ve been thinking about this! It’s a chamber where we distort time, right? And that change is very dramatic, so I thought we could call it…] He spread boneless arms wide. [The Hyperbolic Time Ch⁠—] “No,” Ziel interrupted. “No one uses the word ‘hyperbolic.’” [You do better, then.] Ziel responded immediately. “The Danger Room.” “I like that one,” Lindon said, “but for some reason, I get the feeling we shouldn’t use it.” Mercy leaped up. “I like the room part! Let’s go with that! What about the…Requirement Room? No, wait, I’ll think of something else.” “We could say something about the way it functions,” Lindon said, “but this is basically just a complex matrix of stolen constructs. And we wouldn’t want to call it ‘The Matrix.’” Yerin patted the weapon at her waist. “We’re training swords in here, aren’t we? How about ‘House of Blades’?” Ziel pointed to her. “That’s it!”