Novel & Cerita Ion Bonding Capacity Measure

"Which is not often because they're both irritatingly concise." The one on the left, Kael presumably said, "The bond's thread count through the full moon determines structural integrity. Forty-one is functional. A hundred and one is generational." He stopped. That was apparently the concise version. I looked at Ava. She was looking at Kael with the expression she wore when someone had just handed her a variable she hadn't considered. "You know the mathematics of bond networks," she said. "Our mother was a bloodline scholar," he said. "Before the Council archived her work."

I sat at the edge of the room and watched. Adaeze was working with all three of them simultaneously. Not the individual techniques. Something more complex. A combined reading exercise where each of them read the same bond state and compared what they found. The differences in what they perceived revealing the specific qualities of each person's ability rather than a common baseline. Nana read depth. The layers of a bond. Its history and its health as a continuous thing over time. Efua read state. The current quality of a bond at this specific moment. Whether it was thriving or struggling and precisely why.