Location:Zhū'kethara — Gardens / Training Grounds
Date/Time:Mid Blazepeak, 9941 AZI
Realm:Demon Realm
The courtyard smelled of wet stone and the heavy sweetness of night-blooming jasmine that hadn't been tended in millennia and had decided to tend itself. Zhū'kethara's gardens were like that — ancient plantings gone wild behind formation-maintained walls, growing into shapes that no gardener had planned. The flowers opened when they chose. The vines climbed where they wanted. The trees had opinions about sunlight that they expressed by growing sideways.
Ren sat on the upper terrace, a stack of trade documents on the stone bench beside him, watching the courtyard below.
