Seventy-five years after Luna's dissolution, a bridge child was born who could do something unprecedented: extract memories from the network itself. The child, named Vesper, manifested abilities at age seven that terrified even experienced bridges.
"She's pulling Luna's original memories from the network," Tera reported to the bridge council in alarm. Tera was now one hundred and eight, the eldest active bridge who'd chosen to remain individual rather than merge with collective consciousness. "Not just accessing them as we all can. Extracting them. Taking them out of the network structure and making them privately hers."
Kira, now sixty-seven and a senior council member, experienced the extraction through network connection. It felt like someone reaching into the collective consciousness
