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The night after Mira's awakening did not end with celebration.
It ended with movement.
Sekhmet gave her enough time to steady herself in her new human form, to breathe through the strange layered sensation of having one body hidden beneath another, and then he led her out of the Void Land with Bat Bat and Auri beside them. There was no room tonight for long wonder, not with Mihos's game beginning at first light and the whole house balanced on the edge of the first stage.
Dawn House was quiet when they returned, but not asleep.
That kind of quiet belonged to places that had already accepted tomorrow would bring trouble and had decided, in advance, not to greet it weakly.
