Her name, when we found it, was in the oldest part of the archive.
Not the Severance records. Older. Pre-Severance records Verath's own memory of the world before it split, when they had been present and named and the realm had been a single whole thing.
Her name was Lira.
And she had not been human in the way any of the current factions were human. She had been the last of something that predated all of them, a category that the Verath records called, in their layered language, the Between Walkers, people who had existed in the liminal spaces of the realm long before the concept of a split was imaginable.
Walkers did not live in the physical world. They did not live in the In Between either. They lived in the membrane itself, the actual substance of the boundary between things, and ha
