The seventh class arrived the week after he came home.
Not a planned arrival — the school's intake process had been running continuously since the fifth class graduated, Calla accepting applications through the Framework Inscription network and the correspondence chains and the direct between-walker contact Wren maintained through the threading. The seventh class had been forming for six weeks while he was in the seven territories.
It arrived the week he came home because that was when the timing resolved.
Thirty-seven students.
From twenty-six territories.
The largest class the school had accepted.
Not all between-walkers. The third mandate running in full — ordinary people who wanted the System Literacy track, correction workers who had been doing the work alone and wanted the curriculum, between-walkers whose fragments had expressed and who had been directed to the school through the network.
And four students from the seventh territory.
