Location:Starforge Nexus Pavilion — Isha's study
Date/Time:Late Voidmarch, 9940 AZI
Realm:Lower Realm (Pavilion sub-space)
They moved to Isha's study.
The garden was for letters and grief and the sound of your own name spoken aloud for the first time. The study was for work. Jayde understood the distinction the way she understood most of the Pavilion's architecture by now — not because anyone explained it, but because the soul dimension shaped itself around intention, and hers had shifted.
The letter sat in the inner pocket of her robes. She could feel its warmth against her sternum — the golden starlight paper carrying a residual heat that had nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with what had written it. She didn't take it out. Didn't need to. The words were in her now, settling into place the way foundation stones settle — slowly, with the faint grinding sound of something permanent being built.
