Reykjavik Workshop Safehouse

The workshop beneath an old warehouse outside Reykjavík combines cold stone, alien alloy and branching cable runs. A later visit reveals a timber counter, textbooks and everyday family use alongside the technical work. Workshop and warehouse safehouse are related settings, although their complete arrangement is not established.

At a glance

• Basement under an old warehouse outside Reykjavík
• Cold stone and alien alloy
• Branching cable runs and monitoring consoles
• Later household spaces include timber counter and textbooks

In the novel

Selected passages from P.X: No Man’s Space.

The basement workshop unfurled like a second mind: cold stone married to alien alloy, cabling run in branching veins along the walls. This one sat beneath an old warehouse outside Reykjavik. It was not the only one.

Steam lifted from the enamel mug in Kyrion’s hand, torn away by the coastal gale as quickly as it rose. From the warehouse rooftop, he watched the Reykjavik harbor basin, where the horizon dissolved into driven snow and gray sea light. Below, the crunch of tires broke the winter hush. A black 1971 Chevrolet Impala coasted to the curb, its low-slung chassis and oxidized chrome accents marking it as a relic of another era, pale exhaust drifting into the frost.

The woman slipped past him into the entry hall. The interior was not the sterile, high-tech safehouse she might have anticipated; it bore the order of a lived-in home. A long timber counter divided the main room, stools tucked neatly underneath, textbooks stacked in uneven towers at one end. The warmth of use clashed with the image she had carried of him for decades.