The three sovereigns left the impossible room the way they had come, one turn of the Key at a time, and returned to their alliances carrying a secret that none of their participant partners would ever sense.
They did not change anything visible. That was the discipline the plan required, and all three of them understood it. The Stormlord of Virexion went back to commanding his storms under Jaskrit's direction, and he did it exactly as before, and Jaskrit noticed nothing because there was nothing to notice. The Crystal Sage of Thalmyr returned to serving Ronethis's strategy with the same flawless precision she always had. The Dawn Matriarch of Celestara took her place beside Dravokh's commanders and held her radiant kingdom's line as if the meeting had never happened.
But beneath the surface, each of them began to move.
