Chapter 295

• [Atremi]
• During our trip east to Imperial City, the rest of Melark’s story slowly unfolded, and I learned more about who the Technicians really were, their purpose, and why they had disappeared so long ago. I had some inkling, from my time working at the palace, but I had been born several decades after the disappearance of the famed imperial scientists.
• “In truth,” Melark confessed, “We never truly vanished. Not completely. We just shifted focus.”