The decision to wait settled over the three of them like a long, quiet promise.
In the days that followed, the sealed pocket dimension no longer felt like a temporary refuge. It became the starting point of something slower and more deliberate. Celestia and Nyla returned to their cultivation with a different kind of focus, because the knowledge that Runar would remain with them until they were ready removed a subtle tension neither of them had fully acknowledged before. What remained was warmer, steadier, and more patient, as though the future had stopped pressing against their shoulders and had instead chosen to sit quietly nearby.
Runar began guiding them in a new way.
