The next day, Moon checked out of the hotel early and headed toward the Awakeners Association.
He needed to get himself registered as an awakener. Otherwise, under the current legal framework, he'd be in serious trouble, classified as a criminal awakener with hidden intentions, someone operating outside the system's oversight. That classification came with surveillance, restrictions, and in extreme cases, prison time.
More practically, no awakener could legally buy or sell sanctuary-related goods without proper registration and an awakener's badge. The body of the Winter Beast still sat in his storage ring, along with the body of the arctic wolf. Those represented significant value, enough to stabilise his financial situation, but they were worthless if he couldn't access legitimate trading channels.
