In keeping with the Difference Engine's usual style, even if history had multiple layers, they ran from the bottom up.
For instance, the first layer of history contained a concealed second layer, and the second might contain an even older third layer... Vanessa now had enough concealment that she should have been able to try transcending the most basic first layer of history and touch the secrets behind the Veil. She should have been using her ability to free herself from the constraints of this outermost layer of history.
That was how Elliot imagined a normal world should work.
Yet the ability Vanessa had just obtained had no effect, and the Difference Engine offered no further explanation of it.
After turning it over in his mind, Elliot thought the most likely possibility was that she was no longer in the first layer of history.
If that was true, it was rather frightening.
If this wasn't the first layer of history, where had the first layer gone?
Elliot's mood grew heavier. He controlled Vanessa as she extricated herself from the Night Watch Bureau's questioning and returned home.
He opened the Sacrifice interface again and looked at the three options. He still hadn't chosen the talent granted by Concealment.
[Please choose!] [Perception]: Your Spirituality can occasionally sense historical nodes intuitively. [Veil]: You will find concealed locations more easily, and investigative abilities directed at you will be misled. [Traveler]: You will never lose your bearings. You can easily draw a map of your location, and in places that cannot be mapped, you can sketch their reflections.
Elliot frowned at the three options.
He was a little puzzled by the first option. What were historical nodes?
Did it mean sensing when something that would affect history was about to happen?
But sensing