Location:Demon Realm — Vaelith's Research Chambers, Kor'veth Citadel
Date/Time:30 Blazepeak, 9939 AZI
Realm:Demon Realm
"There's a baby on the table."
Lyria's voice came from far away — present in the chamber but traveling from somewhere else, somewhere deep, the words carrying the weight of distance and time. Voresh's wings tightened around her. The copper-gold thread of the bond blazed between his Vor'kesh and her Shan'keth vine.
"A demon baby. Newborn. Hours old, maybe less." Her breath hitched. "It's — it's so small. Still has the birth-flush. The Vor'kesh hasn't even fully formed yet — just a faint line at the throat. A thread."
Ren stood at the edge of the circle. His hands were at his sides. His purple eyes fixed on Lyria's face — on the luminous gold-green that had consumed her storm-grey, the depthless sight that was looking through nine thousand years of stone and silence into a room that no longer existed.
