[Celestial Academy — Side Corridor — same moment]
Raven felt the second creature through F3.
Not with Soul Sight. With Necromantic Mastery — the two‑hundred‑meter radius of F3 detected something that was not undead but existed on the boundary of what death meant. Like a signature that F3 recognized from the Harvester's memories that Grim had shared.
Ancient. Pre‑sealing. The kind of entity the original Harvester processed differently from the rest.
The second creature entered the side corridor through the ceiling.
Not through the walls. Through the ceiling — its four physical limbs opening a hole in the stone with the same ease with which a person opens a door, its two spiritual‑plane limbs descending first like anchors.
Four meters tall in a low stance. More elongated than the first. Moving with a fluidity that didn't match its mass.
Orienting toward Raven.
