Ora arrived on the eighth day.
She had said she needed a week to remember what outside felt like and she had taken exactly seven days and had apparently spent them doing three things simultaneously — recovering from forty-one years of containment, writing the corrections to the Kingdom-Wide Inscription curriculum, and reading everything Pela had given her about the network, the school, the oversight board, the combined signal, and the events of the past seven weeks.
She arrived with forty-three pages of notes.
Not the improvised materials of a containment cell — proper paper, proper ink, acquired somewhere in the week between her release and her arrival. Pela had provided the basics. Ora had apparently found a market and expanded the basics considerably.
