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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED EIGHT — DOCUMENTATION OF THINKING

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ORION

The pre-summit meeting with the Covenant was in early autumn.

Three scholars. The senior one who had been at every significant moment. Two who had come specifically for the implications of the five-year revision — specialists in educational documentation who had been with the Covenant for thirty years apiece and who had, the senior scholar said, never been asked to think about a curriculum like this one.

They met in the records hall.

Caela was present.

He had not planned for her to be the
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