Evadine had not meant to cry over the lunch table. It had been a long morning. Two planning calls. One dream‑check with Enki that turned into a lecture on Ley Line maintenance. Three emails from Beth, each more alarming than the last. By noon, her brain felt threadbare. She carried her tray through the sanctuary mess hall and aimed for an empty corner. Instead, she found Eddard already there.

Eddard Roycemont is the current head of the Roycemont family, a modern human elite who begins as Enlil’s coerced agent on Earth and becomes an Ascended ally of Evadine Knightly, shifting the Roycemont mandate from hidden control toward shared survival.