Location:Off-World — Beastkin World (Capital Settlement)
Date/Time:Mid Emberwane, 9939 AZI (Days 5-7)
Realm:Nexus Mission
They gained the audience on the fifth day.
The trade cover worked — two unblessed travellers from the outer settlements, carrying samples of herbs and formation-adjacent plants that Eden had gathered from the sacred grove. Medicinal specimens. The kind of offering that a ruler who valued efficiency would find useful enough to grant thirty minutes of her time.
The Mother received them in a side chamber off the great hall. Smaller than the throne room. A working space — a desk covered in tablets and counting sheets, the walls lined with shelves holding the kind of organised records that Jayde associated with military quartermasters. Production figures. Population counts. Resource allocations. Everything numbered, categorised, MEASURED. The room of someone who ran a civilisation the way a logistics officer ran a supply chain.
