The next day, Lucien had just finished a cycle of comprehension when a knock sounded at the door.
He finally stood up an opened the door.
The Anvil-Horn Eternal stood there with Lilith beside him, both looking far too awake for how early the day felt.
Lucien glanced past them instinctively.
No Kaia.
Lilith noticed.
Her mouth twitched. "She is still chewing on your 'scaffold.' I heard her arguing with a page."
Lucien nodded once. That sounded accurate.
The Anvil-Horn Eternal finally spoke.
"Benefactor," he said, "that Codex you recreated… it is obscene."
He paused.
"The original discipline the Void-walkers practice is different."
He tapped his chest once, then his horn.
"Yours fits. It fits the Big World. It breathes with our rules."
Lucien smiled.
Lilith rolled her eyes. "He has been praising it since dawn. I think he even tried to praise it in his meditation."
The Anvil-Horn Eternal ignored her with dignity.
