Actually, busy everyday life could be quite interesting too. That was a thought I'd developed after spending several days with Lilina personally guiding... well, meddling in the Tree Spirits' efforts to build a home.
The Tree Spirits needed a new home. Once we had resolved the issue of all the sleepers, the matter was placed before everyone. They had a population of 2.6 billion, their own independent cultural system, and were a species of weakly divine beings created by another Life Goddess whose name no one even knew. Taken together, those facts meant we had to give these elves at least one planet of their own as a new homeland.
For now, they were living on their home planet. However, that planet lacked the facilities and resources carbon-based colonists needed to survive. Gaia had activated three enormous Ecological Domes, but they could only meet the Tree Spirits' needs for a short time. Moreover, the home planet's active psionic environment posed a potentially fatal threat to ordinary races at any moment, so they needed to move as soon as possible.
The Tree Spirits were the Old Empire's Last Kindred Branch. They had completed the final task the Old Empire had entrusted to its people, and they had also brought the New Empire crucial intelligence. All that gave Sandora and me a special affection—or, more plainly, a favorable impression—of these pointy-eared elves. So we arranged an extra privilege for the race: a planet in Shadow Space.
Shadow Space had now expanded to an unbelievable size. According to Bubble, it was now roughly the size of a galaxy—referring to its full border-to-border dimensions. In fact, Shadow Space's fringe gradually transitioned into inaccessible regions, eventually connecting to the void, so about one-quarter of its space could not be used. But even three-quarters of a