The Last Hours Before the Beginning

"Um, can we move the plane into your area?" Gisle asked.

"I'm not sure, the space gap isn't big enough to fit such massive machinery in there, but we can try." Wain muttered and concentrated.

He headed for the wall, and it turned to ink. Wain gave the signal and Edena pointed the plane toward the wall, but they had no luck. As Wain had anticipated, the plane was too big.

"Well, that was to be expected." Reto muttered.

"Shouldn't there be a ready-made passageway here? Constructs moved the plane here somehow, so there must be an exit. Right?" Frigus asked.

The others' eyes glazed over. They realized they had acted foolishly, and the answer to the riddle was obvious.

"No, it isn't." Edena disappointed them.

"What, why? It sounds perfectly logical," Gisle pondered.

"They could have changed the passage with the nanites, it would take time, but it is possible. However, now we don't have that option."