Liora noticed the change before Aether himself ever thought to name it.
It happened gradually, over the course of the days following his first return to training, small enough that she could not have pointed to any single moment and said, with certainty, that this was when it began. But by the end of the week, watching him move through his mornings with a steadiness she did not remember from before, she found herself studying him over breakfast with an expression of quiet, searching curiosity that he eventually could not ignore.
