Emery returned to Ebiru Neo with a mind that refused to rest.
He set Atlas and VIA to work, tracing every possible movement connected to the Astiel clan—particularly two names that had begun to weigh heavily on his thoughts.
Caelthar Astiel.
Ishtar Astiel.
Finding them was far more difficult than he had hoped.
The Nephilim systems were layered with ancestral restrictions, and surveillance frameworks designed specifically to prevent outsiders from prying too deeply. Even with Atlas's hybrid cognition and VIA's predictive modeling, Emery's movements were constrained at every turn.
Days passed before confirmation finally arrived.
"Caelthar is difficult to pin down," Atlas reported, "But both are within their homeworld—the Astiel System."
