Location:Demon Realm — Royal Citadel, private study
Date/Time:Mid Frostforge, 9939 AZI
Realm:Upper Realm
The jade pendant went warm.
Ren's hand stopped mid-stroke on the intelligence report he'd been annotating. The report was Heiteng's latest — three pages of precise handwriting detailing the Lower Realm transit routes, the Radiant Realm patrol schedules at the inter-realm passages, and the narrowing window of opportunity to move the silver queen before the seers turned their search downward. Heiteng's reports were always precise. Always thorough. The black dragon king wrote the way he thought — in layers, each sentence carrying the weight of the one beneath it.
The pendant — Suzarin's relic, cold against his chest for ten thousand years — pulsed with heat.
