Location:Zhū'kethara — Council Chamber, Zel'kethari Awakening Chamber, Eastern Gardens, Walls
Date/Time:Mid Cinderfall, 9941 AZI
Realm:Demon Realm
The difference was in the breathing.
Ren noticed it the way you noticed the absence of pain you'd been carrying so long it had become your posture — not all at once, but in the slow unfolding of a body remembering what it felt like before the damage. The threads were still there, millions of them, humming at the edges of his mind, each one a life, a light, a connection he'd held alone for ten thousand years. The weight hadn't lessened. The Path didn't work that way — you held what you held, and nothing changed the sum.
But the grinding had eased.
