The restoration attempt began at dawn in the medical wing's controlled chamber, in the quiet hour when the palace had not yet committed itself to the noise that its days required and the stone walls held the last of the night's coolness against the emerging warmth of morning. Marius had specified the hour for reasons he had written in the technical documentation that accompanied the attempt, which detailed the dimensional energy patterns that influenced Abyssal-frequency processes and the specific way in which morning stability at a ley line node reduced the interference that could disrupt work requiring precision at the level he intended.
