The two weeks had passed slowly, in the way weeks passed when someone had made a decision they didn’t like and still needed to keep moving.
Ren had closed the door on the statue problem in his mind after three days of turning over a risky solution... Using the seven dragon cores that formed the energy backbone of the second chamber below the castle.
The same mechanism of power Dragarion had used.
The idea had lasted exactly as long as the three conversations in which different people using different ways of saying the same thing had insisted that an overload capable of generating Diamond-rank crystals in his system could end up crystallizing him in ways that had no known solution.
Because the only person who might have been able to attempt the extraction of that crystallization was him, and cloning himself was not a viable strategy.
Selphira had been the last to have that same conversation.
With the preserved arm now in her possession, she had said what she needed to say when Ren needed to hear something that wasn’t strategy or tactics but the other kind of thing.
"The girls," she had said, without preamble because preambles were for people with no good understanding of each other. "That’s what’s bothering you underneath all of this."
Ren hadn’t denied it.
"Then think about them in a way that lets you make them happy now. Not when you have the power you don’t have yet. Now."
She had asked whether he knew what might bring them happiness, at least for the moment.
Ren had thought about it for a moment.
And realized that he did know. He had spent enough time with all three of them to know some of their preferred gifts.
Dresses came to mind first. His own design, using special fabrics he had accumulated in the superior rings across years of collecting, with details that corresponded to each of them in ways that only made sense to someone who knew them closely but that he had been putting off working on for different reasons.
Luna with the shadows integrated into the weave from the dark beast’s element in a way that was functional as well as aesthetic, actually built to work with her abilities.
Larissa with a structure that reflected both her light and the brightness that arrived in her eyes when she released some mana.
Liora with the spiritual fire translated into color in a way where the color wasn’t the obvious thing but what appeared when the light turned low.
The earrings came after when Ren realized he still had some time.
Crystals in complex forms with advanced-level runes. Not the basic runes that the ruins had in large quantities with low effectiveness, but runes that delivered the advantages of some larger artifacts in something that fit in an earlobe, designed with the understanding that only the precision levels available to someone with Ren’s enhancements could achieve.
He had finished all three pieces two days before the ceremony.
And the sensation of having failed to give them what he had wanted to give them had reduced from something that pressed from every side to something that sat in the background, not fully resolved, but no longer in the way.
The feeling of something that was exactly as it needed to be, and that the left additional time to fix small details would only improve his good mood.
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The end-of-academic-year ceremony for fifth grade was, under normal conditions, the most important event on Yano’s calendar, the formal recognition of the newest adults that the city had produced. The event where the weight of what someone had become was stated out loud, in front of witnesses, in front of the families that had sent them.
But this year was not a year of normal conditions. The master of ceremonies, who had held the position long enough to have seen the event in many different forms, had understood since the preparation stage that this iteration would be more elaborate than what the program described.
This year, the fifth-year students were not going to be the primary focus.
The main hall near the castle was full.



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