Mistklostret

The monastery in the mist valley was built before the worlds began to bleed, when the scholars thought they had centuries more to work in. The bamboo walls are old — some of them have been grown rather than cut, trained over generations into load-bearing curves. Inside, the archive extends downward through four basement levels into solid rock.

It was a neutral site by agreement when it was built. That agreement appears to still hold, though the parties who made it are not all present. Earth people shelter here when they come through the mist. Spinolandet creatures — the smaller ones, the less aggressive castes — have been seen at the edge of the compound, observing but not approaching. The monks serve warm food without asking who you are or where you came from. The coffee is real. Nobody asks where the beans come from.

The turbines that power the monastery's machinery run on channelled water magic — salvaged Earth metal fitted with systems the scholars adapted from their own infrastructure. It works better than either original system did alone. Nobody has written a paper about this yet. The scholars are aware of the irony.

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