Weaves of Ashes Nove Chapter 315 - 310: The Family

Chapter 315: Chapter 310: The Family

Location:Obsidian Academy → Nexus Pavilion

Date/Ti:Early Cinderfall, 9939 AZI — Evening

Realm:Lower Realm / Pavilion Sub-space

The common room was warm.

Not artificially warm — the Pavilion’s warmth was organic, sothing that lived in the walls and the light and the lived-in quality of air that a pocket dinsion produced when it had been inhabited by people who cared about each other. It slled of Green’s tea — always Green’s tea, a blend she’d been perfecting for eight thousand years — and of weapon oil from White’s corner, and of the faintly tallic tang that Reiko’s fur left on every surface he brushed against.

Ho. That’s what it slled like. Jayde hadn’t had a word for it until she’d lived here long enough to realise that the absence of fear had a scent.

"Wait here," she told Eden. "I’ll bring them."

"You’re going to introduce

to your interdinsional family one at a ti? Like a lineup?"

"Like people who matter to . And who I’d like to not terrify."

"I’m five-foot-two, and I weigh forty-eight kilos. I don’t terrify anyone."

"You terrified the entire Xi Corp biowarfare division for thirty years."

"That was professional. This is personal." Eden smoothed her hair — the practical knot, dark brown, tied back the way she’d worn it in every life. "How do I look?"

"Like a malnourished village healer."

"Perfect."

***

Yinxin ca first.

She entered the common room in human form — golden eyes, 5’10