He called Yuna from the clearing.
She picked up before the first ring completed. 'Status.'
'The creature is non-hostile,' he said. 'It was in the Fractures before the inversion. Someone put it there, or it was drawn there. It was carrying something for me, and it delivered it.'
A pause that was short and contained several things in a small space. 'Carrying something for you.'
'Skills,' he said. 'Unranked. Record-native. I'm at level forty-six.'
A longer pause. 'From one transfer.'
'Yes.'
'Cael.' Her voice had the quality it got when she was managing something that would otherwise be a more significant reaction. 'The Architects built the inversion to draw you here.'
'Yes,' he said. 'The creature confirmed it. They opened the Fractures, configured the inversion, and used the dimensio
