Jonah's Workshop and the Baby Titian

Jonah returned to his forge and found that creation had moved faster than anyone expected. The Titian sprout he had kept there as a shrine was gone. It had grown into a level-zero baby Titian, and the Centrum had taken the being away to determine what it actually was: clone, reincarnation, echo, accident, or something else the world had not yet agreed how to name. That made the forge feel different. It was not only Jonah's work space. It was a site where worship, grief, craft, and possible resurrection had touched the same anvil. Maine joked that Jonah was a crime lord for illegal resurrection, but the joke landed because the situation really did sit near the edge of law and miracle. Gemma Goldgrace had left something gentler behind. A sign reading Jonah's Workshop waited for him. Jonah could not fully read the note or sign, but he recognized his own name and hung it anyway. Titian might not be wholly gone. Jonah's forge had become a place where the world was still making arguments with death.