Location: Obsidian Academy — Discipline Hall / Training Grounds
Date/Time: 11 Emberrise, 9939
AZI Realm: Lower Realm
The bell that woke her wasn't the dawn bell.
Dawn at Obsidian Academy was a single clean strike — bright, institutional, forgettable. This was different. Three strikes, each one lower than the last, resonating through the mountain's stone with the particular heaviness of bronze designed to carry bad news.
Discipline bell. Institutional summons protocol — three descending tones indicates mandatory attendance for named parties.
Jayde was already dressed. She'd been awake since before dawn — old habit, older instinct — reviewing Green's annotated map of the Academy's library system at the low table in her courtyard. The bell cut through the silence of the Elite tier like a blade through silk.
