Location: Secret Realm — Forest Zone
Date/Time: 4-8 Emberrise, 9939 AZI
Realm: Lower Realm (sub-dimension)
The forest smelled like rot and green and the particular ozone-afterburn of a beast that had died badly.
Jayde crouched beside the carcass — a scaled viper, mid-Sparkforged at most, coiled in a heap of iridescent blue scales with its skull caved in from a single strike. Not hers. Something bigger had been through here, maybe an hour ago. The territorial scraping on nearby trees was fresh, the sap still wet.
Predator overlap. Two territories converging on a water source. The viper was defending, lost.
