Location:Seven Peaks — Gate Terrace, Valley Floor / The Hidden Sanctum
Date/Time:TC1854.02.01
Sylvara felt them first.
Elian was eating breakfast in the residential wing — porridge with honey, Aren across from him arguing with a spoon that had frozen to his fingers — when the tree's awareness surged through their bond like a hand gripping his shoulder. Not pain. Warning. Something approaching from outside the world's normal fabric. Something displacing the space between two points and stepping through the fold.
"Mama," Elian said. His golden eyes had gone wide. "They're coming."
Three floors above, Raven was already moving. Veyr's pommel had shifted from silver to deep violet — not calm, not grief. Resolve.
***
The Phase Ark materialized on the valley floor two hundred meters below Seven Peaks' main gate at seven minutes past dawn.
