Ren listened to the entire debriefing in quiet relief…
He was a bit sad but mostly thankful that the crisis he had been forced to miss by being in a different front had resolved itself with minimal casualties.
He wanted to believe Selphira's words, "they were necessary" and "not your fault".
But couldn't avoid wanting to be stronger to make even those unnecessary…
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The group finally descended into the excastle's hill in Yino housing the star array. Ren stepped forward and pressed his palms flat against the massive, metallic like surface of the dome, preparing to weave his surplus energy into the huge prison.
But the moment his ether connected with the structure, he paused.
Something was wrong with the tunnel timeline.
The accumulated buffer of 5 days they had painstakingly built up to trap the purple dragon had depleted more than the standard erosion rate normally justified, there were close to only 3 days left.
