Time continued moving after Pax left Greyvale, and Sage quickly discovered that preparing for the Royal Capital did not mean he could simply pack his belongings and follow him.
Pax had departed with a small number of trusted people to begin laying the intelligence network Sage wanted inside the Capital, while Sage remained behind with an entirely different problem waiting for him: Evergreen was growing faster than the Guild's existing structure could comfortably handle.
Days became weeks, and during those weeks the Adventurer District became the command center of an expansion that stretched across the entire region. Reports arrived every morning from established branches, construction requests arrived by afternoon, recruitment lists piled across Lyana's desk, and messengers seemed to enter and leave the Guild Hall at every hour.
