Three years had passed in the preservation zone, which translated to fifteen hundred years in the transformed world outside. In that time, the ancient consciousnesses had completed the primary stages of the transformation and had begun the work of creating stable structures that would allow different forms of consciousness to coexist within the same reality.
The Ambassador Project was the culmination of this effort. It was the creation of intermediate consciousnesses that could exist partially in both the transformed world and the preservation zones. These ambassadors would be neither human nor ancient, but something genuinely new. Something that incorporated aspects of both perspectives.
The first ambassador to visit the preservation zone was someone unexpected.
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