Location:Seven Peaks — Multiple
Date/Time:TC1854.12.15
Luneth got down from the tree.
Not gracefully. Gracefully was a concept the silver-blue Aeralith had encountered, evaluated, and rejected in favor of a more personally authentic approach to vertical transit. The approach involved a branch, a miscalculation, a 3-meter free fall, and 7T9.
The snake was crossing the garden path beneath the ornamental cherry — the same tree Luneth had been stuck in four times previously and climbed for the fifth time that morning because Luneth's relationship with consequences was theoretical rather than practical. 7T9 was en route to the command center with Raven, who had paused to examine a frost pattern on the garden wall that Aren had left during his morning training (a lattice of interlocking hexagons that Silas later described as "a formation diagram I didn't design and can't improve, produced by a seven-year-old's residual cultivation while walking to breakfast").
