Location:Hidden Valley, Eastern Ranges — dormant Luminari stone ring, inside the wardDate/Time:Mid Frostforge, 9939 AZI — late afternoon
Realm:Lower Realm
[Now do not die.]
The middle brother's claw was already in the air.
Two paces into a charge that should have ended at her chest. He was bleeding from the shoulder seam she had cut a heartbeat earlier — black dragon-blood streaking his foreleg dark. The pain had not slowed him. The pain had made him reckless.
[Use it,] Kazren said in her soul-space. Dry as ledger ink. [He is no longer thinking.]
Above the dome, a second pressure-crack.
Wind shifted. The silver light of Isha's ward pulsed once and recovered. Something heavy had arrived inside it.
