Location:Obsidian Academy → Nexus Pavilion
Date/Time:Early Cinderfall, 9939 AZI — Evening
Realm:Lower Realm / Pavilion Sub-space
The workshop saved them.
Not deliberately — nobody said "we need a change of subject" or "that was enough emotional devastation for one evening." The transition happened the way transitions happen in families: someone stood up, someone followed, and the gravity of the group shifted from one room to another.
Eden stood first. She did it the way she'd always done it in the Meridian medical bay — when a surgery was over, when the patient was stable, when the grief of what couldn't be saved needed to be set down so the living could be attended to. She stood, smoothed her hair, and said: "Show me where you work."
Jayde showed her.
