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Volume 2, Chapter 46 — Dependency Surface

Author: Nyra Veyne
last update publish date: 2026-06-20 20:37:33

The request from Ordell's Treaty Office arrived in the wrong channel.

That was the first thing Kaela noticed, not its contents, but its routing. It had been filed under interoperability coordination rather than external affairs, which meant someone in Ordell had already developed an internal taxonomy for the distinction. They knew to send interoperability queries somewhere other than the sovereign's general office. They knew, in other words, that a somewhere existed.

She read it twice before fo
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