We returned to the residence assigned to us, and I felt the shift the moment we arrived. It wasn't overt, nothing dramatic, but it was there in the way the attendants moved, more careful, more alert, eyes lingering a fraction longer than before. The news had already reached this place.
And it wouldn't stop here.
What happened tonight would spread beyond this planet, beyond the Feran's system itself. The Nagas would hear of it. The demons too. There was no containing something like that, not when an island had been split apart under an open sky.
The thought drew a faint smile from me. I could already imagine Primus's reaction, the sharp bark of laughter when the story reached him.
Everyone drifted off to their own rooms soon after. I returned to mine and settled down, pulling the memory module on runes back into focus. The familiar patterns unfolded again, layers of runes made to work together with other runes and generate something complex.
Time slipped by unnoticed.
