The responses came back over three days.
Not all at once — the distances varied, the threading quality varied, the time each person needed to receive the message and sit with it and respond varied.
But they came.
He was camped at the wellspring's geographic location — the physical correspondent to the between-space source, a shallow valley in the far north where the terrain had the specific quality of places that had been shaped by something significant having been present for a very long time.
The between-space flowing through it now.
Not invisible.
Brill had been right — the between-space's presence was not metaphorical. With the wellspring open the between-space running through the valley had a quality that was different from the Domain's clean architecture, different from the healing gradient in the worked territories.
Fuller.
The actual thing rather than the approximation.
He sat in it and read the responses as they arrived through Nara's Framework Inscription channel.
