# Chapter 121

Aria's POV

The week after I gave Kira the document was quiet in the way that follows significant things.

Not empty. The work continued — it always continued. The second institute residency was in its eighth week, and Beth's midpoint dispatch had arrived with the observation that Cass, the maritime practitioner, had done something in the fourth week that the whole cohort was still working through. She'd described her students' experience of returning to school after extended time at sea not as absence and return but as multiple ongoing educations running in parallel, neither one complete, each informing the other in ways the students themselves often couldn't...