The light peaked.
The flat, single, enormous, sky-going, complete, full-extension peak of the yin light — the specific, maximum, this-is-the-event-completing, everything-at-once peak of an ancient-grade yin flower's full transfer completing in a Yin Devouring Body that had been ghost-state for however long and was now finishing the restoration.
Then it settled.
The flat, post-peak, warm, soft, present, completed quality of light that had peaked and was now at the settled, warm, done-now ambient of a cultivation event that had finished and was sitting in the air.
The pavilion door.
Movement.
The flat, present, single-figure, walking-toward-the-door movement of someone who had been inside and was coming out.
She came out.
The daughter.
Not the ghost.
