The range test happened in the evening.
Maren insisted on being present — the physician's instinct expressing itself as oversight rather than interference, the Lich positioned at the Domain's edge where the Sovereign bond could monitor Nara's Class activity without adding to the ambient System noise.
Calder brought his reference texts. Of course he did.
Sera brought her notebook. Of course she did.
They set up in the clearing behind the clinic — the same building that had been closed for twelve years and had been running for three weeks and had already seen a hundred and forty patients and was currently treating seventeen simultaneously on the ground floor while a Level 53 Death's Chosen sat in the back clearing and prepared to find out how far she could reach into the System's historical record.
"Baseline first," Kael said. "The node at the well this morning — three meters, comfortable access, no strain."
