[Threshold Port — Temporary Base — Day 62 — night]
Two days in Threshold Port.
Enough for Seraph to have the team's complete inventory evaluated and the necessary adjustments made before entering unknown territory.
Enough for Emily to have the new plants stabilized and the healing components she wouldn't be able to find inland once they left the port.
The temporary base in a rented building in Threshold Port's west sector — two floors, enough space for the team, with the spiritual signature of something ancient in the walls that Emily had read and that Grim had confirmed with his crimson flames as predating the port itself.
"This building is older than Threshold Port," Grim had said on the first day.
"How much older?" Jessica had asked with her notebook.
"Much."
Jessica had noted that as *building — age indeterminable but greater than port — spiritual signature active but passive.*
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