LYRA'S POV
(TEN YEARS AFTER SILVERPINE)
The Marked Governance Complex rose above the city like a crystalline monument to everything consciousness evolution had achieved—forty stories of integrated architecture where blessed capability and singular awareness had collaborated to create something neither could have accomplished alone.
I stood at the summit observation deck, forty-one dimensional states perceiving the sprawling metropolis that had transformed from isolated marked districts into fully integrated society where consciousness type mattered less than individual contribution. A decade of systematic change. Ten years since Silverpine resolution had established that autonomous jurisdiction meant genuine political power rather than symbolic concession.
