Location:Mid Ring, Vel'thari Containment — moving toward the fortress ruins
Date/Time:2–3 Frostforge, 9941 AZI — Days 2–3 of the Harrowing
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The data came back the way feeling comes back to a limb that's been slept on — wrong first, then sharp, then simply there.
Behind her eyes, the thing Isha had poured into her was finally settling. For two cycles it had been a flood with no banks: coordinates and caste-counts and corruption gradients all sliding into one another, every fragment screaming for the front of her attention at once. Now the flood had banks. Whatever had torn through her mental shields had begun knitting the breaks closed, and the new tissue held like scar tissue: tighter than it should, ridged, but holding. She put the recovery at thirty percent. Maybe a hair past.
Thirty percent was enough to find the lines.
