Location:Seven Peaks — Shadow Pavilion Briefing Room, Verdant Spire Corridor, Eastern Wall
Date/Time:TC1855.05.18
Naida's office was two levels below the Verdant Spire, windowless, cold, with three exits and a stone chair that discouraged lingering. The formation lights stayed at a functional minimum — enough to read by, not enough to feel comfortable. Everything about the space communicated the same message: say what you came to say, then leave.
Raven had been down here four times in the past year. Each visit had ended with her knowing something she wished she didn't.
"A month," Naida said. She stood behind the stone desk with the stillness of someone who'd spent years learning that movement communicated weakness. "Thirty-one days since the healer arrived. Twenty-nine since the merchant. Twenty-eight since the scholar. Three individuals, three sectors, three independent surveillance operations running around the clock."
