Episode Fourteen: “Three Days to the Moon”

The three days of preparation. Day One: the pixies begin decorating the path and the wall — pixie cairns, moonflowers encouraged by Root, the stone wall cleaned. The Smudge sits in Danica's light and, in the fullest expression of the Light Between yet, speaks his full backstory — he is Clarity, last of the Silver Fox clan, the original gate regulators. His scrambling is displaced regulation magic. Danica gives him his name back. Day Two: Clarity sits at the Big Red with Danica beside him and Root reaches through him — using the Silver Fox frequency language — to pass a crucial message to Dion: the Dissonance is moving faster than the Archive records suggest, and the Heart Crystal — not the Archive's proposed solution — is the precise thing needed to seal the wound. Dion's response comes back: *"Understood. Ready. Thank you."* Day Three: the last morning. The group is quiet and full. The moonflowers begin to bloom. The stone wall reveals its seven crystal spaces clearly for the first time in full moonflower-reflected light.