Verath called a meeting.
This was unprecedented. The Verath had been available through the bridge, had spoken when spoken to, had offered the archive in measured portions, had pulsed their responses and their presence with the patient quality of a people who had spent seven centuries waiting and had developed a relationship with patience that most physical world inhabitants would find extraordinary.
They had never initiated.
Aine brought the message up from the bridge on a Tuesday morning, delivered in the careful language of someone who is serving as interpreter for a communication that carries more weight than casual.
“Verath says: the archive has a record that the jurisdiction holder needs to see. It is not historical. It is current. It was captured in the last forty-eight hours thr
