Location:Wild Confederacy — Settlement Windbreak
Date/Time:TC1856.06.24 (Morning)
Raven arrived without her mountain.
That was the point. The Confederacy's third condition: come as a guest, not a sect leader. Walk their territory. Eat their food. Sleep under their roof. Let them see the woman without the institution behind her.
She brought Kairos, Thorne, and Naida. No disciples. No formation arrays. No technomagic. Four people on sky-surfing blades, landing at the edge of a settlement called Windbreak that sat in a river valley between two ridges of exposed granite, looking like it had grown from the earth rather than been built on top of it.
