Location: Vor'anthel → Hall of Remembrance
Date/Time: 10 Emberrise, 9939 AZI
Realm: Demon Realm
It started with a whisper.
Voices. Human voices, Aetherwing voices, voices roughened by decades of hiding and voices too young to remember why their parents flinched at shadows. A murmur that began somewhere in the lower tiers and spread the way fire spread through dry grass — catching, leaping, carried by its own momentum.
"What do we call it?"
Ren heard the question from three different directions before he identified its source: nowhere. Everywhere. The question had erupted simultaneously from a dozen throats, because it was the question that eight hundred thousand people had been holding since they'd walked through the western gates and found themselves standing in a city that had been built for someone else.
