Lucien left the newly completed chamber only after Eirene's tears had stopped.
Neither of them spoke about what had happened.
They did not need to.
Later that day, a message from Anvil-Horn reached him.
The old craftsman's words were brief.
[What did you do to the lass?]
Lucien paused.
Another message followed before he could answer.
[She has become a monster. Her form changed. Productivity has tripled.]
Lucien almost laughed.
He could imagine the scene.
Eirene must have released her Stillbloom Moonbody.
It was the form born from the complete union of her Lunarian and Floran lineages after she absorbed the Fruit of Creation.
Most people had never seen it. Eirene usually remained in her Floran form.
In Stillbloom form, Absolute Stillness and Living Equivalence no longer felt like Laws she commanded from a distance. They moved with her like additional limbs, precise enough to halt disorder in one place while redistributing structure in another.
