Location:Zhū'kethara — Supply Receiving Chamber / Sleeper Integration Wing
Date/Time:Early Scorchwind, 9941 AZI
Realm:Demon Realm
The crate materialized on the receiving platform with a sound like tearing silk — a clean separation of air where solid matter hadn't been a moment before. Then silence. Then the faint settling of weight on stone as the formation's resonance lock released and the aperture closed.
Ren stood three paces back, hands clasped behind him. The chamber was deep underground, warded to Kaelen's standards, lit by steady foxfire in iron sconces that painted the stone walls amber. Kaelen flanked the platform on the left — silver-white hair caught in its practical queue, pale silver eyes already calculating the formation's energy signature. Draven on the right — crimson hair loose, molten gold-red eyes fixed on the crate with barely contained intensity.
