The black seam closed around the Underworld court, then sent its remaining pressure through every route the commanders had already touched beneath the Last City foundation.
Hajin felt the backlash enter his tattoo before the sound reached the crater, burning the sampled line from his palm to the old shoulder wound.
Didi's royal current flared beside him, while the sixth Shard held the recall away from her heart beneath the narrowing road.
Far behind the crater, the one-Ring clone felt the same closure arrive through the shared soul beneath the child's room.
The clone stood at the bed's doorway with one palm against the stone, keeping the black branch outside the Bloodline Sanctuary.
Vella's gold covered Cessy's safe wounds from within the room, though the foreign line had begun reaching around the clone's assigned Ring.
The child watched the clone's shoulder burn beneath the one Ring, then turned her hood toward the closed inner shelter.
"Do not let it enter," she said.
