Location: Isha's Pavilion
Date/Time: 30 Ashwhisper, 9938 AZI
Realm: Lower Realm (Pavilion Sub-dimension)
The thread was still there.
Isha checked it for the ninety-third time — not because the number mattered, but because the alternative to checking was acknowledging that checking accomplished nothing. The contract bond between him and his current contractor pulsed with the steady, unremarkable rhythm of a heartbeat monitored from another room. Alive. Present. Entirely out of reach.
Two Pavilion days. A handful of real hours.
He'd felt the moment she crossed the boundary — a clean severance, like a door closing between rooms that had always been connected. One moment, the girl's essence signature had been there, readable through the Pavilion's remote monitoring thread. The next: nothing. Not dead. Not damaged. Simply... elsewhere.
