The hatch at station 12 is quiet for once — a twenty-foot drop to an upside-down room, with nothing coming up.
Elle McGib gives the first calm inspection of one. The hole in the floor at Station 12 has nothing coming up out of it; looking through it, the drop is about twenty feet, it goes all the way to the mirrored room across the way, and there is another door over there in a room that is also burnt out and upside down. What a trip, she says.
Her rock establishes how gravity works inside The Space In-Between, and Princess Donut renames the whole layer the Noodle. Only the transfer, prime and stairwell stations have these hatches at all, which is why the plain stations can be held.
A round section of station floor fallen away, a twenty-foot drop to a mirrored room, another doorway visible across the gap.
The floor's hatches, and the doorway between mirrored stations.