Location:Pavilion — Dragon Sanctuary
Date/Time:Mid Frostforge, 9939 AZI — next morning
Realm:Lower Realm (soul-space)
The false-sky brightened to morning in slow gold.
Jayde sat at the edge of the Sanctuary clearing, Reiko at her left, his bulk warm against her hip. The mercury rune pulsed steady. Around her, the Pavilion was waking — or performing its version of waking, the bioluminescent veins in the distant walls shifting from deep blue to pale gold, the air warming by careful degrees. Somewhere in the tree line, Tianxin was already awake, her chirps carrying across the clearing in bright staccato bursts.
The five Panthera were scattered like oversized cats in the morning light — Canirr by the tree line, Suki nowhere visible, Prota in a sunbeam with his metal foreleg stretched out, Amaya curled in a ball with her nose tucked under her tail. Takara sat beside Jayde in his small form. White fur. Blue-tipped ears. The ribbons catching the false-sky's light — pink, blue, gold.
