Vella entered the contracted possession choir through the scars left inside her pathways by the earlier severances.
The outer patients remained protected behind closures she had built. Every hostile priest and replacement voice now fed one central core beneath the throne.
White-gold healing traveled outward from that core, restoring the Crowned Avatar whenever palace defenders damaged its shell. The whole choir had become both weapon plus repair system.
"The choir has folded its branches inward," Vella said through the Spirit Ring. "I can reach the core, but keeping treatment alive requires holding both ranges until separation finishes."
Hajin stood outside the Court boundary with four Rings closed around strained pathways. Aria isolated Sanctuary through the existing buffer before he opened Vella's route.
"Protect the treatment network first," Hajin said, "and if the central core cannot be destroyed without killing patients, withdraw."
