Had begun the correction work at seventeen — the same age as Asa, the same age as Kael's Awakening. Not through an Awakening ceremony. There were no Awakening ceremonies in the mountain territories. The Class emerged naturally, as it had in Senn's territory, the between-space capacity developing without the System's formal classification process because the System's coverage in the high mountain regions was thin.
Soma's ability had been present for sixty-one years without ever being formally named.
They received the group at the entrance to a mountain village with the specific quality of someone who had been expecting visitors for a long time and had prepared for the preparation rather than for the arrival.
Which meant the preparation was ready.
Which meant they immediately produced documentation.
Sixty-one years of it.
