Kori leaned against a pillar where the light didn't reach. Arms folded low.
"So" Kori said quietly, "that's what happened to him."
Nobody moved.
Lynea drew one slow breath. When she spoke again, her voice was steady - measured, like she wasn't even surprised Kori was there all along.
"I'm not done" she said. Hands flat on her knees. "What I told you - that was the debt I owed. But there's something else. Something I have no right to ask for."
She lifted her eyes, slowly.
"My family did a lot of harm" she said. "A lot of it. To the Underworks. To Neoshima. To people whose names I'll never know. To ruined families. Even to people you knew." She looked at Kori without flinching. "But I can't give back what was already taken. I can only choose differently and live long enough for the choice to mean something."
The scar on her calf hid in the dark.
"If there's forgiveness you can give" she said, "I'll gladly carry it. If there isn't - I'll carry the work instead."
Raizen stood.
