The first honest institution built in the full presence was a school.
Not Aldren's school — a different school, in the southern territory where Hael had been consulting for three weeks. A territory that had received the governance model consultation and had built its oversight board and had established transparent Awakening ceremonies and had then asked a question nobody had asked before.
The question arrived through Hael's field report.
The territory council met yesterday. They've established the oversight board, the civilian review, the advancement credit mechanism. All of it running. Then the council's youngest member — a woman named Asta, Level 19, former farmer, elected six months ago — asked something that stopped the room.
