Five Years Later…~Lyra's POV~The northern border trail at dawn was the same trail it had always been.The roots in the same places. The low branch at the third turn. The place where the path narrowed and the trees came close enough to brush both shoulders. I had run it enough times now that my body knew it without thought, in the dark, in the cold, in the pre-dawn when the sky was the colour of almost-morning and Kaela ran ahead of my conscious awareness, fully present, fully whole.I stopped at the ridge.The valley below. The compound visible in the distance, larger than it had been five years ago, the expansion for the Lumen network's regional coordination centre visible in the eastern wing, which Torvi had designed in her thorough and functional way and which had turned out, to no one's particular surprise, to also be beautiful. The compound was active even at this hour. It was always active at some level now.I stood on the ridge and ran through what five years contained.—----
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