Kael kept holding the page for a few more seconds, his fingers tight around the edges while the two sentences remained visible before him.
There was no protocol language, no classification produced by the First Archive, and no attempt to summarize the conflict in an impersonal line.
That had come from Nerya.
From somewhere hundreds of kilometers away, a woman who might not even know exactly what the First Archive was had found the only opening created during the review and used it to state something very simple.
I AM NOT LYSSARA.
MY NAME IS NERYA.
Sylphie was the first to break the silence.
"Then she has already answered the most important question."
Kael slowly nodded.
"Now we need to make sure she can still answer it fourteen hours from now."
Amelia was already moving on the other side of the crystal.
Orders were being relayed in the background, documents were being separated, and someone left the room carrying a stack of House Vharen records.
