Balance did not come without a price.
It began... to leave traces.
Aurelia felt it as something left behind after every decision.
Not merely change.
But marks that did not fade immediately.
The entity beside Aurelia tensed slowly.
Its lines of light moved along the paths that had been taken.
As if reading something that had already happened.
Not something that was happening.
The units behind maintained the core.
But now they also observed the new layer.
A layer that did not exist before.
Kael narrowed his eyes.
"There are remnants," he said softly.
"Not direct effects... but traces."
Orion nodded.
"Consequences."
Ragnar exhaled.
"Everything is starting to leave marks now."
Aurelia understood.
And this was something inevitable.
She stepped forward slowly.
Following the path just traversed by the two previous groups.
And there.
She saw something that made her stop.
The rhythm in that area... had changed.
Not broken.
But no longer the same as before.
