Timeline: TC1853.02.25 (Mid-morning)
Location: Seven Peaks Territory, Eastern Valley
Raven woke to sunlight streaming through moss-filtered crystal and the gentle hum of the Verdant Spire singing its endless song. For a moment, she just lay there, feeling the tower breathe around her—air currents cycling through hollow spaces, water flowing through crystalline veins, spiritual essence pulsing from the vein below.
Home. This felt like home in a way that no place had felt across ninety-nine lifetimes.
But there was so much more to build.
She sat up carefully, assessing her condition. Eighteen hours of sleep—far more than she'd intended—but her spiritual reserves had recovered to acceptable levels. The cultivation-enhancing properties of the tower had worked even while she slept, her core passively absorbing essence from the moss-purified air.
