The Stink Mage of Hollowfen 5: What Was Always There

The founders knew. They built above the network anyway - because they had no other ground, because they believed the relationship could be maintained, because they trusted a lineage of practitioners who were erased sixty years after the cities were built.

The record they filed has been waiting four hundred years for the right methodology to reach it.

Bristle is going to the deepest layer. Sable is going all the way down. The last node remains.

What Was Always There is the conclusion to the Stink Mage of Hollowfen series - a story about the read that was always there, the work that was always worth doing, and what it means to be present for the thing you helped build.