Eirwen opened her Zone while the Royal Collector uprooted the orchard around her. Twelve Shards entered living soil, and every surviving root became part of The Forest Remembers.
The living network stored every incoming pressure instead of preventing it. Each obsidian strike, burned branch, and severed root entered the answer Eirwen prepared through her own pathways.
"Keep it touching the ground," Eirwen said while raising her bow. "The orchard cannot answer anything that refuses every living root."
Hajin held the Legendary Chain around the Collector's waist through five Rings. Loccy drove both palms against its chest, forcing one foot beneath the torn soil.
Juna cut every boundary seam appearing above the creature, denying it an easy route into the empty sky. The Collector opened a black line through Loccy's shoulder in answer.
