The search party ascended three levels above the foundation, entering the silent corridor that guarded the western succession archives.
Didi walked beside Hajin with rigid posture, holding her silver lineage crest against her chest like an unyielding shield.
Both royal recorders carried the sealed evidence cases behind them, logging every corridor marker under the sovereign warrant.
Ferra followed with the numbered reinforcement components and the diagnostic cradle, her expression solemn as she monitored the gauges.
Juna remained stationed at the stair landing, her eyes tracking every movement along the adjacent guard galleries.
A sculpted genealogical tree spanned the entire archive portal, its branching limbs cast in burnished relief.
Seven dynastic branches crossed the polished surface, but only the highest branch extended into the recessed verification socket.
