Hajin followed the child's frequency before the First Prince could fortify another prison around it. The trail descended beneath the ruined orchard through a foundation corridor hidden behind three false royal seals.
Didi froze each blood-authorized closure while Ferra tested the ancient supports. Every frozen seal rang her three Shards hard against their limits, exactly the strain a completed fourth orbit would relieve.
'She is paying for each door in Shard pain, and that debt is still compounding.'
Loccy carried the unstable ceiling where the transferred chamber had torn through it, and Juna cut divine perimeter bodies without crossing the child's preserved signal.
Five perimeter shells tried to collapse the stair behind them, so Hajin's Chain held the lowest support while Ferra replaced magical joints with iron braces.
