|Kairos|
The next six days passed in restless anticipation, each hour stretching longer than the last.
For four days, we traveled across Hestian Territory, the journey grueling and slow. Then, instead of enduring another four-day trek through the treacherous mountain pass, we boarded a ship bound for Neptune Territory, cutting our travel time down to a day and a half. Even still, the journey felt endless.
So when my boots finally met the wooden docks of Levine Territory, it was as if the weight of the past month crashed over me like a tidal wave.
Exhaustion clung to my bones, the toll of countless sleepless nights settling into every muscle. My patience had long since worn thin, stretched taut by the relentless gnaw of uncertainty. But none of that mattered—not the ache, not the fatigu
