Location: Pavilion Medical Bay (Pocket Dimension)
Time: Day 231 (Doha Actual) | 764 - 21 Voidmarch, 9938 AZI
Darkness.
Warm darkness, like floating in water heated to exactly body temperature. No pain. No fear. Just... existing. Drifting through nothing and everything at once.
(Where am I?)
The thought came slowly, like pushing through honey. Jade's voice, young and confused, emerging from depths she couldn't quite remember sinking into.
(What happened? Why do I feel so... different?)
Consciousness returning. Initiating system diagnostic.
Jayde was there too—calm, clinical, already analyzing even before full awareness returned. Jayde felt the familiar dual presence of her integrated mind, and something in her chest loosened. Still herself. Still, both of them, woven together.
But something had changed.
