Location:Above
Date/Time:3–5 Ashbloom 9943 AZI
Realm:Above all three
They stayed at the forward edge a good while after that, the pair of them, and said nothing else to each other, and that was the whole of what either of them had wanted out of the morning.
Behind them the cabin got on with it. Shenxin was converting something for Hulong, at length. Tianxin had worked out that she could put her shadow on the deck and move it, and had been doing that for a considerable time. Isha had not got up off the floor.
Somewhere in there the light changed.
It was not dramatic, and neither of them remarked on it — the amber went out of everything underneath them, degree by degree, and the cabin came down to whatever the stars were giving, and eight dragons standing in a ship they could not see found out what dark is when there is nothing in the way of it.
Then Eden said, "Jayde," and her voice had gone somewhere else entirely.
"I see it."
"You do not. Look between."
She looked between.
