The Puzzle Box

Nyra did not accept the inheritance of the Workshop with a speech or a ceremony.

She simply walked into the space, picked up a piece of unfinished wood, and held it.

She did not try to finish it, or to replicate Valerius’s work.

Instead, she began a new project, one that was entirely her own.

It was a small, intricate puzzle box, with no obvious solution.

It was a statement.

The Workshop, under her guidance, would not be a place of repetition, but of exploration.

It would be a place for asking new questions, not just for perfecting old answers.