They left the world of the Silent God to the sound of its own, rediscovered music. The experience had been… unsettling. It was one thing to fight a monster or a god of war. It was another thing entirely to fight an idea.
They spent the next cycle in the Whispering Library, a period of quiet decompression and study. Elisa spent most of her time in the library's combat archives, sparring against holographic representations of legendary warriors from a thousand different worlds. Vexia and Serian buried themselves in the history sections, devouring the stories of fallen empires and ascended gods. Mela, surprisingly, found a home in the library's botanical section, a vast, simulated garden that contained every plant from every recorded reality.
