The cultural exchange with the Terran Federation became the Nexus Coalition's most ambitious project. It was a slow, often frustrating process, a dialogue between a civilization that believed in the quantifiable and one that thrived on the ineffable.
Vexia and Vasa became the primary ambassadors, spending months at a time in the Terran capital, trying to build a bridge between science and magic. They found an unexpected ally in the Logic Conclave itself. The massive AI, for all its cold logic, possessed an insatiable curiosity. It found the chaotic, unpredictable nature of magic to be the most fascinating data set it had ever encountered.
But while the leaders talked, the rest of the universe did not stand still. The message from Kaelen was a stark reminder that other stories were unfolding, other battles were being fought.
Nox opened a private communication channel through the void, a link that only he and Kaelen could access.
