Location:Seven Peaks — Shadow Pavilion Office, Raven's Office
Date/Time:TC1854.09.25 – TC1854.10.05
Naida kept a separate shelf.
Not in the Shadow Pavilion's formal intelligence archive — that system was organized by Coop's Cognitect-designed taxonomy: military, political, economic, environmental. Clean categories. Efficient retrieval. The architecture of a mind that thought in systems.
Naida's separate shelf held the reports that didn't fit. The ones that were too small for a formal category, too vague for a classification, too strange for the taxonomy that preferred its intelligence clean. She'd maintained this shelf since the Shadow Pavilion's founding, and over the months, it had accumulated the particular weight of things that individually meant nothing and collectively meant she couldn't sleep.
She reviewed the shelf every ten days. Today was a review day.
