Location:Imperial City — Palace, Rings 5-7, Southern Road
Date/Time:TC1853.12.29-30 — Evening to Dawn
The Luminous Charter was sixty-one pages long. Kael had lost count of how many times he'd read it.
He sat in his private study in the east wing of the Imperial Palace, the charter spread across his desk beneath the amber light of formation lanterns that had been burning without interruption since the wave killed everything else. The pages were dog-eared now, annotated in his own hand — margin notes in the careful script his tutors had drilled into him since childhood. Questions, calculations, comparisons to the Imperial governance structures he'd studied his entire life.
