Location:Off-World — Beastkin World (Capital + Settlements)
Date/Time:Mid–Late Emberwane, 9939 AZI (Days 11-16)
Realm:Nexus Mission
The machine didn't stop.
That was the first thing Jayde noticed — the morning after the kill, walking through the capital's streets in the grey light before dawn. The Mother was dead. The Beast Lord had spoken. The square still held the residue of what had happened — the bloomed trees, the cracked cobblestones where the bioluminescence had surged, the space where the body had lain before the Beastkin carried it to the burial ground with the reverence they still owed the Ivory One's flesh.
And the work crews were forming.
