The training room had been transformed.
Where previous sessions had required cleared floor space for energy work and physical combat practice, today's setup was entirely different. Raphael had arrived an hour before Eve and rearranged the space into something that looked more like a formal meeting room than a training facility.
A long table had been brought down from one of the estate's conference rooms, positioned at the center of the space. Six chairs arranged around it....five on one side, one on the other. On the single chair's side, a small table held water and what appeared to be notes. On the five-chair side, Raphael had placed objects: a black obsidian piece, a gold coin, a military medal, a scroll tied with purple ribbon, and a single white stone.
When Eve arrived, she stopped in the doorway and looked at the arrangement with the expression of someone who understood they were about to have a very different kind of session.
