Location:Zhū'kethara — Research Chambers, Eastern Wing
Date/Time:Mid Cinderfall, 9939 AZI — Morning
Realm:Demon Realm
The first test ate through the body.
Vaelith had expected a reaction. She'd designed the reagent for one — weeks of isolating the Vor'lumen flower's essence signature, distilling the bloom's sacred chemistry down to its reactive core, guided by Vorketh's question that had broken the deadlock: Why does the Vor'lumen bloom when a pregnant demon walks past? The answer had led her here. The flowers responded to intact Vor'kesh. The essence of the bloom recognised what was whole and what was hollowed.
She had not expected this.
A single drop of pure reagent on the preserved devil tissue. One drop — clear liquid, no scent, indistinguishable from water to the eye.
The tissue hissed.
