Location: Starforge Nexus - Tactical Planning Chamber | Luminari Artifact Dimensional Fold
Time: Day 113 (Month Four, Week Four) - Evening
The evening after cultivation defense training, Jayde found herself back in the Tactical Planning Chamber.
Green had asked her to return after dinner. "One more conversation," she'd said. "The most important one."
Now the displays had dimmed—not dismissed, just faded. Like the chamber itself, it understood this moment needed less distraction. The crystalline walls that'd shown political networks and power structures yesterday now reflected only soft golden light from the Luminari systems humming beneath everything.
Jayde sat in the chair that'd molded itself to her body, muscles aching not from physical exertion but from hours of maintaining triple-layer concealment. Aura suppression, mental shielding, Tome camouflage—all exhausting in different ways.
(We learned a lot today,) Jade thought. (How to hide from almost anything.)
