He left Kael's Seat the afternoon the meeting ended.
Not urgently. The meeting had gone well. The director had what he needed. Neral was already drafting the documentation transmittal. The Assessors' provisional classification would become official in several months and the Guild would begin whatever slow institutional adaptation it needed to begin. None of that required the carrier's presence in Kael's Seat.
The Guild had a new classification for him. The eastern hemisphere had developing Rifts that would exceed formation threshold in three to five years without management infrastructure. One of those things required his physical presence. He walked east.
The first two days of eastward travel felt different from every previous eastward journey.
