Location:Obsidian City — Markets and streets
Date/Time:Early Sparkfall, 9941 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm
The courtyard was empty. Jayde checked it twice — once with her eyes, once with the awareness that came from carrying a soul-space full of beings who depended on her not being followed — and then she entered the Pavilion.
Inside, chaos.
Tianxin was vibrating. There was no other word for it. The eldest wyrmling stood in the center of the garden path in a human form she'd mastered three weeks ago, wearing a child's tunic and trousers that Yinxin had sourced from somewhere, and every line of her small body was humming with an energy that suggested she might detonate if they didn't leave soon. Her golden eyes were enormous. She'd been told — repeatedly, by Yinxin, by Green, by Jayde herself — that golden eyes were unusual for human children, and she'd need to keep them down in crowds. She was not keeping them down. She was vibrating.
