Location:Zhū'kethara — Family meeting hall
Date/Time:Void Days, 9940 AZI
Realm:Demon Realm
Zhū'kethara was quieter during Void Days. The five days between years sat in the stone like a held note — the city's usual rhythms of patrol and construction and council muffled into something gentler. Festival sounds drifted from the lower tiers, distant and warm, but the deep-carved corridors of the upper city absorbed them. Up here, the silence was old. The kind of silence that had been waiting for centuries before anyone arrived to hear it.
Ren stood in the family meeting hall and looked at what Sorathia had done to the room.
