LYSSARA
The evening found Ashfen in the specific quality of quiet that it had been finding ever since the founding compact's full restoration, not the crisis quiet of a territory operating at full alert capacity and not the ordinary quiet of a territory conducting its evening routines but something between those two things and different from both, the specific quality of a space that had just been through something enormous and was now sitting inside the aftermath and discovering that the aftermath was not empty.
It was simply itself.
The correspondence had been cleared by early evening, and the seven territory acknowledgments had been filed, and the bloodline's first day of knowledge transfer had produced seventeen documents that Zykran had organized and annotated with the specific, pr
