Location:The Pavilion — the Medical Bay
Date/Time:6 Flamefade 9943 AZI, Restday, morning
Realm:Lower Realm
Jayde had both hands flat on the edge of Yinxin's table, and the wood under the dressings was the only thing in the room that was not looking at her.
Everything else was.
Five shadow dragons in human form, with Xingteng half out of a stance she had not finished leaving. Two queens who had been dead for longer than the calendar, standing in their own light at the head of the table. Eden with a handheld still raised. Green with a jar in her hand. Three children, one with her chin on her mother's shoulder and her mouth still open on a question. A Panthera filling a doorway. White, Isha, Reiko. Heiteng, standing in front of a stool.
And on the stool, a black dragon with a dead hand on her knee, who had come out of a reed bed before light and put the other one through the queen.
Nobody spoke. They had all heard her, and they were waiting to find out what she would do with it.
