Location:Lower Realm — Dragon estate, Outskirts of Obsidian City
Date/Time:Ashbloom, 9942 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The courier arrived at dusk with ink on his fingers and road dust on his boots.
Yinxin met him at the estate's service entrance — the modest side door that led through the warded corridor to the administration wing. She was in human form: five feet ten, silver-white hair pulled back, golden eyes reading the courier's face before he'd finished bowing. The gray robe she wore was deliberately unremarkable. The woman wearing it was not.
"Eighty-three," the courier said, handing over the report ledger. "Three new villages signed this week. The northern road network is complete."
