Location:Dragon estate, outskirts of Obsidian City
Date/Time:3 Frostforge, 9942 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The bond woke her at midnight, and Yinxin's favorite planter did not survive.
Jayde was out of bed and halfway to the door before her feet had agreed to be awake. The mantis, curled on the floor beside her with Green's compound still drying pale along its flank, came up and followed and clipped the doorframe with its left blade-arm and took a piece of the wood with it.
In the corridor, a lamp came off a shelf. Nobody had touched it. The formation bridge between the estate's wards and the Pavilion's network was vibrating with an incoming frequency loud enough to shake loose anything that was not bolted down.
[Jayde.]
Not a thought. A detonation. The raw, unfiltered broadcast of a mind that had been running for two days without sleep and had spent a year forgetting how to control its own volume.
[Jayde. Jayde. Jayde.]
