LYSSARA
The beginning was the founding era.
Of course it was. Everything that had been done to me and through me and around me in the past eleven months had its roots in the founding era, and I had stopped being surprised by this approximately three documents ago and was now simply receiving it as the specific ongoing revelation of a world that had been operating on a longer timeline than any of its current inhabitants had understood.
Nythera did not begin with herself. She began with the architecture. The founding compact had two layers, she said. The layer Kaevra described, the military and governance architecture, the seven territories, the coalition, the sovereign bloodline's authority over pack governance, was the visible layer. The layer that ran beneath it was the spiritual and o
