The classification review came with a form.
That was the first sign the Council had decided to treat him as a paperwork problem instead of a power problem.
A clean folder.
Academy seal.
Three pages. Every bonded linkage in his pack got a line and a box.
The box wanted a designation either Beast, Bridge, Standard or Indirect.
The Council loved a category it could file under and the form was the category dressed up as a courtesy.
Six of the seven boxes filled themselves.
Yara was a problem they had given up classifying and written down as anomalous. That was its own kind of designation.
Selah read as Bridge.
Maren read as Standard.
Dani read as Indirect through the moth.
The grid still could not see the moth and the form handled it by inventing a checkbox.
Mona read as whatever a thing that lived under the ground read as.
The seventh line had Joan's name and an empty box.
