Location: Hall of Remembrance, Zhū'kethara → Pocket Dimension (unknown)
Date/Time: 29–30 Emberrise, 9939 AZI
Realm: Demon Realm → Unknown
The Hall was empty.
Ren had made certain of it. The last tracing session had ended at the fourth bell, the mixed-blood families filing out in clusters of wonder and grief and that particular exhaustion that came from discovering how much of your history had been kept from you. Vaelith had stayed longest — she always did, reviewing the day's results with ink-stained fingers pressed to her temples, cataloguing every new connection, every gap, every wall. He'd sent her to rest an hour ago. Firmly. She'd gone with the reluctant compliance of someone who knew she needed sleep and resented the biology that required it.
