The regional council convened at noon on the third day.
Kael was still in the eastern region when Sera's message arrived through Wren's threading — the Keeper's maintained signal carrying the update from Valdenmoor in under an hour, the network's communication speed normalized enough that distant events arrived in something close to real time.
Council convening now. Voss present. Three senior clergy filing jointly. Hael's brief submitted. Sorel holding. Update to follow.
He read it on the eastern road between Merren and the second cluster city, Fen walking beside him, the Cost Sense and the visibility ability running in parallel — Oren feeling the present-tense cost of the road's ambient suppression, Fen making that cost visible as a faint shimmer in the System architecture around monitored individuals they passed.
The two abilities in combination.
Feel the cost. See the mechanism.
He had been watching it for two days and still found it extraordinary.
