Location: Hall of Remembrance, Zhū'kethara
Date/Time: 24 Emberrise, 9939 AZI
Realm: Demon Realm (Upper Realm)
Lyria was last.
Vaelith had planned it that way. Ren understood why — the healer had watched Lyria's blood respond to the Hall on the first day, had seen crystals brighten when the girl walked past, had measured and catalogued and filed, and wanted to see what would happen when that blood met a blank matrix without the buffer of existing records between them.
Lyria stepped forward, and the Hall noticed. Not visibly — the crystals didn't flare, the formations didn't shift. But there was a quality to the silence that changed, a resonance in the stone that hummed just below hearing, as though the mountain itself was paying attention.
