The summons to meet Sera Voss arrived on day three hundred and twenty-five, one week into Amaron's partnership liaison rotation.
Formal invitation delivered through official channels. Sera was visiting Valdenmere to attend Partnership Initiative coordination meetings and had requested individual consultations with each S-rank liaison. Amaron's appointment was scheduled for the fourteenth hour in the Initiative headquarters' secure conference facility.
He arrived precisely on time to find Sera already present. She looked exactly as his Memory Index had described from the original timeline—mid-thirties, professional bearing, the presence of someone who'd built a continental organization and had navigated it through Guild campaign operations to negotiated partnership. But seeing her in person rather than through combat reports or mana-projection communications was different. More real. More present.
