Sigil of Absence
The spire floats like a weathered cathedral pulled from an old family story, its glassy ribs catching a cool blue light. Air smells faintly of ozone and the memory of cold stone, and the palace's carved friezes read like ancestral handwriting. Surfaces shift in slow disguise, an elegant camouflage that questions each visible marker while the round plaque reads plainly Where Vojta? and offers no answer.
Disk-like sigils drift nearby, soft-lit and humming like surveillance pucks or holographic dossiers, their edges holding a rain of tiny runes. Streaks of light suggest urgency, a distant countdown that accelerates the investigation even as doubt settles into the calm. The search keeps moving; Vojta is not here, only traces and scent and a patient, scented silence that honors what remains unknown.
