The secondary quest completion notification came without fanfare.
I was sitting at the writing desk in the private study, reviewing the draft communication to Cassian for the third time, when the system's text appeared at the edge of my awareness with the quiet, unhurried quality of something that had been building for a long time and had simply arrived at its conclusion.
[Secondary Quest: Discover the Truth Behind the Duke's Obsession. Status: Complete. Progress: 100%.]
[Reward Unlocked: Full Clarity.]
I set the draft down.
Full clarity. That was the system's language for what it was giving me, and I had learned enough about how the system used language to understand that it meant exactly what it said, not more and not less. Not a revelation. Not a dramatic reconstruction of events I had not witnessed. Full clarity meant the complete picture of something I had been assembling piece by piece, for a very long time, and had not yet allowed myself to see in its entirety.
