The green line did not disappear completely.
It remained stretched across the sea as the group passed through Amelia's portal, but its intensity diminished with each passing second. Sylphie kept part of her energy attached to the trail until everyone had returned to the Kingdom of Witches. Only when the passage closed behind Violet and the agents carrying the Cradle's first creation did she release the connection.
Kael felt the moment he left Orla.
It was not pain or a change in his channels. The sensation was closer to losing someone who had been watching him from afar. A constant attention abandoned the back of his neck for a few seconds and returned soon after, searching for him through the connections that crossed the realm.
"The Cradle can still sense you," Sylphie said, touching the center of his chest. "More weakly, but it can."
"Then we need to start now."
Amelia was already walking toward the containment room.
