[Veltharr — The Broken Rock — 10:00 AM]
Breakfast ended without anyone having the energy to talk about anything important.
The team at the inn's long table. Hot food.
The nameless boy — still without Fragment 4, without the mask — sat at the far end of the table.
Not uncomfortable exactly.
Just... present in a way that he was still learning what it meant.
He looked at his cup.
Emily watched him for three minutes.
Then she went to her room and came back with a box.
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She put it in the center of the table.
"What's that?" asked Raven.
"A board game." Emily opened it.
"I bought it at the Veltharr market yesterday while you were sleeping."
"A board game... and you bought it while we were sleeping?"
"We need to do something that isn't thinking about Fragments, rituals, or Catacombs for at least two hours." Emily took out the board.
"This is Crowns and Kingdoms. It's basically about buying territories and ruining your opponents."
Maya looked at the board.
