LYSSARA
The founding compact had recognized us. We were not assigned but ecognized. I had been carrying the distinction between those two words since I read the historical section and I was about to deliver it to the man it concerned in my own language because some things deserved to be spoken by the person who understood them rather than by the ancient text that confirmed them and this was one of those things and I was not going to let a founding era document say it for me.
I crossed the room. It was not the distance of someone delivering information, the distance of a woman who had been on the other side of it for three months and had just been given the correct word for what the other side was and was done standing on it.
He watched me come with the specific quality of attention he b
