Ophirya Kaelis drew in a slow breath and let her vacant white eyes drift over the assembled family as though she were already tracing threads no one else could see. Tia did not look away. Their gazes locked, two different schools of Karma Laws measuring the same impossible object: a continent that would fly, momentarily vanish into a mini-realm, and reappear wherever the Void Dust Tree's catapult-like ability decided the next sanctuary should stand.
"I will speak first," Ophirya Kaelis said, her voice even, "because the problem is not merely defense of the continent, but karmic signature."
She lifted one pale hand as translucent soul force of an immortal beast gathered above her palm and shaped itself into a thin, trembling spindle of light. Fine silk-like lines radiated from it as they formed into the shape of the Golden Radiance Continent while a blip emerged in the forest a bit to the south from the east.
