The newly formed copy remains beside Evesavarra as silver paths flare beneath both demonesses. Their shared pattern spills across the gallery floor, projecting a partial map of the eastern ward.
The map traces chambers, thresholds, and amber ward-lines before ending at a cleanly severed mark. Beyond it, the eastern foundation fades into blank stone and waiting darkness.
Evesavarra
That is not damage. The road was cut deliberately, and the missing fragment bears the same sign found in Lillith’s warning.
The Smaller Demoness Copy
The pattern remembers an absence. I can follow the surviving paths, but the severed mark refuses to become a destination.
At the gallery’s edge, the silver symbol pulses once, matching the sign Vethseris copied beside her proposed offices. The pulse travels through the map, then stops before the uncharted break.
Evesavarra
My sovereign, this may be the office the foundation was waiting to recognize. If the fragment returns, it could reveal whom the settlement expects beside me.
The Smaller Demoness Copy
Or what it expects. The severed path feels less like a missing person than a withheld law.
✓ Quest Accepted
Trace the severed ward fragment to where it was taken