Three days have passed since the group arrived in Moonshade City, and each of them had spent that time differently.
John moved quietly through the districts marked by the four major powers, observing without asking questions, gathering an intuitive sense of the domain's politics that no report could fully substitute for.
Morgan spent his days working through the merchant district's formation shops, examining higher-grade arrays and trading ideas with local formation masters willing to talk shop with a stranger.
He came away from each conversation having learned considerably more than he had expected and equally aware of how far his own mastery still had to grow before it matched what he had seen displayed casually in ordinary storefronts here.
Sai kept working the Grey Shadow Hall's intelligence channels, refining his picture of who exactly would attend the auction and what influence each visiting party carried.
