The dark avatar stayed behind for the first month, despite everything he had argued for.
Klea refused to change her decision. She had a good reason—she needed the Khaos Legion focused on other matters first.
More shadow clones than usual moved through Vorn Hollow that month, quiet and patient, gathering information from the darkness. The dark avatar assumed, reasonably enough, that Klea was preparing some kind of raid. Perhaps she was planning a direct move against Kieran, or something even more ambitious.
Instead, the orders that came back had nothing to do with the Drow.
Every shadow was instructed to investigate the Clans—the families that actually lived and held power throughout that sector.
