Chapter 99: The Offering
The silence from Marshal Varek was a physical presence in the Mountain, a held breath that grew heavier with each passing day. The Legacy Project, however, became a roaring fire against that silent dread. Finn's broadcasts grew more inventive, featuring snippets of "donor stories"—a grizzled wolf-shifter from the eastern plains talking about his grandmother's uncanny ability to predict storms, a human glassblower from the southern isles describing a familial resistance to heat. It was anthropology as espionage, weaving a continent-wide tapestry of latent Concordance traits right under the noses of those who would hoard or destroy the knowledge.
