Through The Roundabout

The dim glow of the holographic screens flickered across Viviane's chambers, casting shifting patterns of soft golden light against the walls. The air carried a faint, herbal fragrance—something subtle, yet grounding, an intentional contrast to the overwhelming sterility of the Landship's more mechanical sectors.

Ishmael stood in the center of the room, her posture composed yet wary, her sharp gaze shifting between the floating streams of data surrounding Viviane. Though she masked it well, there was a weight behind her stance—an unspoken caution, as if she had been called into something far more significant than she had anticipated.

Viviane, ever composed, remained seated at her desk, her hands gently clasped together as she observed the fragmented information suspended in the air before her. The holographic scripts wavered in a chaotic pattern, shifting symbols bleeding into one another, some distorting entirely into incomprehensible voids of static.