Part One
I received a package today, for the Lord Daeyari.
In my time as governor, this is only the second such occurrence, a nondescript parcel delivered by a vavriter, that hybrid race so rarely seen in these territories.
“From the Twilit Plane,” he told me.
I wouldn’t know where to begin sending a message to the Twilit Plane, couldn’t name a single human who knows the route to the daeyari’s home world. I asked the vavriter if he’d made the journey himself, what it was like.
He said it wasn’t my concern. That if any message must be sent, my Lord Daeyari knows how to do so.
After he left, I wondered—why do the daeyari refuse to teach humans about the Twilit Plane? Why keep the route a secret?
— Journal of Silas Jenper, former governor of Thomaskweld, recovered during restoration of the capitol building