Location: Kael'thoren Fortress — War Chamber
Date/Time: 25 Ashwhisper, 9938 AZI
Realm: Demon Realm
They came expecting logistics.
Ren could see it in the way they arranged themselves around the great table — the Kael'shira taking their usual positions, the three Elder Council representatives settling into the carved stone chairs reserved for the realm's oldest voices. Parchment and supply calculations. Housing projections. The practical machinery of absorbing eight hundred thousand people into a civilization that had been slowly dying for ten millennia.
That was what they thought this meeting was about.
