Bohemia set off just as the first sliver of dawn broke in the east. After a dinner of who-knows-what the night before, she'd been sent off to bed because Lin Sanjiu was worried she "wouldn't be sharp enough to get the job done"—which was just plain condescending.
'Besides, Lin Sanjiu herself stayed in the dining hall, talking with Silvan about who-knows-what until daybreak. Wasn't she worried about not being sharp enough to get the job done? And did they even properly discuss going to the astral plane to get that Potential Growth Value?'
After only two hours of sleep, Silas used every trick in the book to wake Bohemia. Outside Exodus, the sky was still a gloomy, inky blue. The deep, dark green forests were shrouded in a swirling mist, their shapes reduced to faint outlines, like a bottomless abyss.
