Location: Telia Forest → Interdimensional Transit → Pavilion Assessment Chamber
Time: Day 569 | Telia: Day 59 → Doha: Day 569/207 (Stasis Break)
Realm: Telia (Mission World) → Doha (Home World)
Dawn on Telia felt different—lighter somehow, as if the world itself knew she was leaving and had begun the process of letting go.
Jayde stood at the cave entrance one final time, Reiko beside her, both looking out at the forest that had been their temporary home. Trees stretched toward the sky that was turning gold with sunrise. Birds sang their morning songs. Somewhere distant, a stream babbled over rocks. Life continuing, indifferent to human departure.
"Beautiful," she whispered.
[You'll remember it,] Reiko assured her. [All of it. The village. The forest. The dragons. This world that changed you.]
"Changed us both."
