Location:Oceanus Domain — Eastern Cliff Terrace
Date/Time:Ashbloom, 9942 AZI
Realm: Upper Realm / Lower Realm
The Flicker came at dawn, the way it always did.
Takara sat on the eastern cliff terrace in his true form — eight feet at the shoulder, midnight-black fur absorbing the Oceanus morning light, white-gold lightning pulsing in slow, living patterns across his haunches and spine. The electric mane crackled faintly with each breath. The amber eyes, burning with an intelligence that predated most civilizations, were fixed on the horizon where the sea met the sky and neither one had anything useful to say about the woman sealed inside a mountain six hundred miles south.
