"Then it's time we put this to use."
Kaiden drew a notepad from his jacket and opened it to a page crowded with sketches, arrows, and corrections in several different hands.
He wasn't just going to wing the creation of such a thing.
They had spent much of the previous evening around the palace table, planning what to build after today's first assessments. Dinner had given way to open catalogs, discarded sketches, and a lengthy discussion about how to make adjoining landscapes support one another.
Nyx had kept the terrain descriptions open while he drew, checking their water sources and growing conditions against the map. Aria wanted room for families near the lake; finding enough dry ground there had sent them back through the elevation controls until they understood what each change would do.
