The Sovereign Record was changing how it wrote about Sun Harvest.
Due noticed it first.
The dispatches had been arriving on their usual schedule, and Due had been reading each one with the attention of a man who knew that how the Record covered you decided how the continent understood you.
For the first six weeks after the registration, the Record had written about Sun Harvest the way it wrote about every new faction, names and facts with a certain wariness in the language, as if the writers were waiting to see whether the faction would last long enough to justify the ink.
After the Echelon confirmation, the language changed.
Alistair saw it most clearly in the third dispatch of the new cycle.
The Oasis of Grain section no longer referred to Sun Harvest as "the newly registered faction." It now read "Sun Harvest of the Oasis of Grain," the same register the Record used for Therasia, Frument, and Elysium.
The institutional register.
