Location:Seven Peaks — Multiple Locations
Date/Time:TC1856.06.02 (Dawn to Evening)
Raven walked the mountain at dawn.
Not the sect leader's inspection — the walk she took once a season when she needed to see what her hands had built instead of reading what her reports described. Kairos walked beside her. Close, quiet, learning the rhythms of a woman who processed the world through her feet.
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The lower training grounds held eight thousand bodies at dawn.
Not all of them — the grounds couldn't hold the full combat force simultaneously. They trained in rotations: eight thousand at dawn, eight thousand at midday, the specialist units in the afternoon. Twenty-four thousand combat-trained cultivators cycling through Taron's curriculum in shifts that kept the grounds occupied from first light to last.
