The report had four pages.
Aldric had left it on the guild table and retreated to the counter with his coffee — the specific distance of someone who knows what they've just brought requires space.
Kai read the first page.
Serah read the second.
Lira, from her chair, extended her hand without looking. Kai passed her the third.
The three in silence for several minutes.
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The report from the Mount Heiguers hunters had the tone of people who had seen something they couldn't classify and had tried to classify it anyway because it was their job and the job required terms.
The terms fell short.
"Physical impact of unregistered magnitude in the northern sector — the trees on the eastern perimeter of the mount show damage consistent with lateral crushing force, not vertical, which rules out rockfall or landslide."
