Another month passed.
In that month, progress no longer came in steps.
It came in waves.
The cure production never stopped. Verdant Veil members worked in shifts under Eirene's direction. Barrel after barrel was sealed, recorded, and prepared for transport. By the end of that month, they had amassed enough cure to reach hundreds of millions.
And still the production continued.
But Lucien had not spent those weeks on medicine alone.
He had also pushed forward the other design he had been refining in silence.
The makeshift small universe.
Not a true universe.
But just a stable interplanar enclosure large enough to house several small worlds without crushing them together, while remaining hidden from anything that might be wandering the gray beyond.
To make it, Lucien did not work alone.
He brought the four elemental women with him into the interplanar gray space.
