Chapter 24: Questions And Wrong Answers

I stood up, Celestial... the word stayed with me. It did not feel like something the system had chosen randomly. It felt like a category I was supposed to already know about, the way someone might casually mention their family without explaining what a family was, because the concept was universally understood.

Except I did not understand it.

I wrote Celestial? in the margin of my notebook, and I paused when I noted that the objectives I had laid down in the previous loops were gone.

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