Location:Seven Peaks — Root-Network Hub, Training Grounds, Library, Boys' Room
Date/Time:TC1854.10.22-28
Elian's mornings began underground.
The root-network hub sat beneath Sylvara's trunk — a chamber where the tree's primary root intersections converged like the spokes of a wheel, pale gold against dark stone, pulsing with the slow rhythm that was Sylvara's version of a heartbeat. The spiritual energy in the chamber was dense enough to taste — warm and loamy, the flavor of soil after rain, the kind of thing that Elian had stopped noticing the way you stopped noticing the sound of your own breathing.
