And somewhere deep in the Velorian Rift, in a grotto beneath a shattered sky, a newborn child who had never cried began, at last, to laugh.
Dorn picked it up. It was warm.
In a hidden grotto beneath the roots of the Sunken Oak, Kaelen held her daughter for the first time. The child was not large. She was not loud. She simply was —a small, warm weight wrapped in a tattered shawl, her eyes closed as if she already knew everything the world would ask of her. tesys birth story
“The future,” Kaelen said. “She brought it with her.” And somewhere deep in the Velorian Rift, in