Resonance Spire
The tallest structure on the Shelf and the junction of the Ground Speech. Its base is elephant city: a broad drum of rammed laterite with four spiral ramps wide enough for a matriarch, climbing to a ring of hexagonal alcoves where elephants and ants stand together in silence, trunks and antennae lowered to the floor. Above the ramps the spire turns to ant city – a tapering lattice of bamboo, silk and shed chitin, every strut strung with the humming lines of the Thread. At the very top, in a holl...
Located in The Chitinous Mandate.