Thessaly confirmed Stage Three in thirty minutes.
Her pen moved faster than usual. She asked follow-up questions where she would normally ask one, which Mira had already learned was Thessaly's version of barely contained urgency. The confirmation itself was almost secondary — both of them knew what the tests would show before they ran them.
It was what came after the confirmation that changed everything.
"There's something else," Thessaly said.
She set down her pen and looked at Mira with those pale, precise eyes — the look of a woman choosing her words with the care of someone who understood that some information, once given, rearranged everything around it.
"The interaction between your Voidblood and Damien's Imprint gift," she said. "I want to discuss it."
Mira waited.
"Normally,
