Ora's response arrived on the second evening.
The thread Wren had established held the transmission — thin, the new connection requiring careful maintenance, but functional. Nara received the message through the Framework Memory's bidirectional channel and translated it at the settlement's kitchen table while Senn watched and Dael looked up from the documentation for the first time in eight hours.
Ora had sent forty-one pages.
Not a summary. The actual documentation — the sections of the System Literacy curriculum that addressed pre-System architecture, the forty-one years of containment observation that touched on the oldest layers, and three pages of new material that Ora had apparently written specifically in response to the query.
The three new pages were the important ones.
Kael read them twice.
Then he read them a third time because careful people read important things three times.
Ora's assessment of pre-System suppression accessible to Death's Chosen ability:
