The message from Kel arrived on the road between the first and second territories.
Not through Wren's threading — through the Framework Inscription network, the slower channel that Kel had been using for the formal curriculum exchanges with Ora and the other faculty. The specific choice of channel suggesting this was something considered rather than immediate.
The message was long.
He read it over two evenings, the road camp's fire providing the light, Nara reading alongside him.
Kel had written the classification gap section of the System Literacy curriculum.
Not the outline Ora had provided. The full section. Twelve pages. Dense with the specific quality of someone who had built a conceptual framework carefully and was now presenting it with the precision of a Structure Walker showing the architecture of their own thinking.
The section began:
