Location:Outer Ring, Vel'thari Containment — Main Fort / Primary approach
Date/Time:Emberwane, 9942 AZI — Day 345–365
Realm:Lower Realm, Doha
The dead took ten days to prepare.
Nobody had ever brought bodies out of the Harrowing. In every culling cycle for millennia, the students who fell stayed where they fell — in the tunnels, in the dark, left for the containment to consume the way it consumed everything else. Their families received a name on a list. A formal notification. A date. Nothing to bury. Nothing to hold. Nothing to bring home and put in the ground and visit on the days when the grief needed somewhere to go.
Jayde stood in the main fort's central cavern and looked at the rows.
