Ferra laid three shafts beside the hearth once Roen confirmed both western return chambers empty, along with the evacuated district. She chalked their receiving spaces beneath the mint, canal and archive, keeping every occupied route outside the forge's grounding plan.
Hajin let all three Rings die beside the hearth, still smelling the discharge ground on his torn coat.
"Three empty chambers, nobody home, and a smith with a hammer, oh, I love this plan," he snickered.
Vella checked the Witness Avatar scrap through the bond, found nothing living, and Ferra fed it into the palace alloy.
Ferra struck the joined alloy while her single Wing steadied its answer through the hammer.
"Three stakes," she told him, turning the first shaft under the next blow, "one transfer interval each."
"A fourth sends more recoil through my Wing than I can carry, so don't even ask for a spare."
