he methodology documentation reached the thirty-first correction worker on the one hundred and twelfth day.
A woman named Terr, forty-four years old, working in a coastal territory three hundred and twenty kilometers north of Venmoor. She had been doing correction work for nine years — shorter than most in Orveth's network, the discovery of her between-walker capacity coming later in life. She had found the work late and had been working with the specific urgency of someone making up for lost time.
She received Dael's documentation through Orveth's correspondence chain and read it in one sitting and sent back a message that arrived through the threading network in two days.
The message said:
