The rest of the day passes without me trying to fix anything else.
After the Team Battle, the talk with Freya, and the meeting with Rahul, my body can still move, but my head has hit its limit. I go back to my room at the Academy, close the COMM and the Forum, and fall asleep before some new problem finds a way to knock on the door.
The next morning, I wake early.
I sit on the edge of the bed for a few minutes, sorting through what has to happen in the next thirty days.
Four percent of experience. The Rank C wall. The team for the Deep Asylum. An exit route Rahul can't provide. The Silver Fang has to keep producing without leaning on my decisions, and the factory still has to survive the attention the launch earned it.
Then I think about Rhayne.
When the chance came to return to Earth, Veric got a Reentry Pearl through the Azurea contacts. Oliver knew veterans and merchants who could find, lend, or sell a stone even when the market ran dry.
Rhayne stayed in Thirstfall.
