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Chapter 383 - Chapter 378: Grieving in Silence

Location:Pavilion — Green's healing space / Garden / Obsidian Academy — Trial Tower

Date/Time:Late Voidmarch, 9939 AZI

Realm:Lower Realm

Green's healing space smelled of dried lavender and formation-stabilised crystal. Clean. Warm. A room designed to put patients at ease — and it did, unless the patient was Jayde.

"Something changed." Jayde sat on the examination bench. Straight-backed. Hands on her knees. The Commander's posture. The Commander's voice — level, precise, reporting a medical issue with the same tone she'd use for a supply chain disruption. "The child voice. Jade. She's gone. I need to understand what happened."

Green didn't react with alarm. The emerald eyes studied Jayde the way they studied any patient — reading the surface, looking beneath it, cataloguing what was said against what was shown. The healer who had spent years learning to see what people couldn't tell her.

"When?"

"Yesterday. Mid-conversation. She was speaking. Then she wasn't."

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