Asqa didn't expect that she and Clyde would end up spending the entire day—and possibly the night—in Sivagadh. She had assumed this visit would be brief, just long enough for Clyde to check the progress of the expansion and speak with Hammer to make their equipment.
But things had somehow shifted. Between the forge meeting, the unexpected talk with Samuel, and the quiet weight of decisions tjat about to come, so Clyde decided that they were not ready to leave just yet.
Now, the two of them stepped into one of the unclaimed buildings near the outer curve of the forge district.
It was sturdy, clean, and surprisingly familiar. The interior bore the same simple layout and quiet atmosphere as the house they had once stayed in back during the earliest days of the Selection Stage.
Asqa paused in the doorway and looking at the space inside the house. The sparse furniture, the neutral walls, even the faint scent of heat-treated stone in the air all brought memories flooding back.
