Location:Lower Realm — Mountain Ridgeline / Obsidian Academy Grounds
Date/Time:Early Voidmarch, 9941 AZI — Month 2
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The granite was cold beneath her belly.
Amaya lay in the crevice she had chosen on the first day and would not leave until the last, her forepaws crossed, her weight distributed across the stone shelf in the precise arrangement of a body that intended to hold its position for as long as the stone held its. Below, the Academy spread in its tiers of dark architecture against the frost-pale mountainside. The sealed portal was a flat gray absence among the buildings, visible from her angle as a slightly different shade of stone in the morning light.
She had been watching for a month.
