I was lost.
The trip that I hoped to take less than a week was slowly approaching that timeline… with all three of us stuck in the very same place where Fay decided to hit the breaks.
For the last five days, I failed to figure it out. I failed to make a breakthrough.
No matter how long and hard I thought, researched, and focused on my inner state, I just failed to make any sense of what was going on.
After all sorts of tests and extremely detailed observation of both Fay's and Claudy's aura weave and how the starlight reacted with it… I've come to the simplest possible realization.
There was absolutely no difference in how those two absorbed the starlight permeating the air to how I did it! Or rather, to how it happened all on its own, just over the course of us breathing that air and being around it, to begin with.
