"This," Meilyn said with quiet intensity, "is a spell of enlightenment."
Enlightenment. The word carried weight that went far beyond its mundane usage. In my previous world, enlightenment had been a philosophical concept, something achieved through meditation and self-reflection. Here, it was as real and measurable as gravity or thermodynamics.
I had experienced enlightenment myself—that sudden, overwhelming rush of understanding that had propelled me past the Wall from Integration to Ascendant rank. The moment when scattered knowledge crystallized into perfect clarity, when the universe itself seemed to whisper its secrets directly into my consciousness.
