Timeline: TC1853.11.14 (Late Afternoon–Evening)
Location: Corrupted Forest — Nexus Crater, East of Thornwall
She woke to the smell of wood smoke and something else — something clean beneath it, like rain on stone, that didn't belong in a dead forest.
Raven opened her eyes. Blinked. The sky above was the color of old parchment, the late-afternoon sun fighting through air that still carried traces of corruption but no longer tasted of void. Her back rested against packed earth — the slope of the nexus crater, she realized. Someone had arranged her on an incline, head elevated, legs extended. The position of a patient, not a warrior.
