Location:Obsidian Academy → Nexus Pavilion
Date/Time:Early Cinderfall, 9939 AZI — Evening
Realm:Lower Realm / Pavilion Sub-space
The evening settled.
Not planned — organic. The way families settle, when the initial energy of something new gives way to the quiet comfort of people choosing to be in the same room. Green's tea had been refreshed twice. The wyrmlings had arranged themselves in their customary configuration — Tianxin draped across Reiko's back, her small body rising and falling with his breathing. Shenxin curled in the warm curve of Reiko's belly, one eye open, watching. Huaxin had migrated — slowly, with the careful increments of a creature who didn't want anyone to notice she was moving — from Yinxin's legs to the floor beside Eden's knee.
White hadn't moved. His tea was at the same level it had been twenty minutes ago. His steel grey eyes tracked the room with the ambient attention of a man who processed everything and commented on nothing.
