The seal carried a marker that the Tower's standard administrative system didn't generate — something older in its design language, the visual grammar of a tradition that had been impressing its authority into wax since before the Tower's current architecture existed. Black wax. The marker of a jackal-headed deity whose function in the Tower's upper hierarchy was not the mythology's simplified version of a death god but something more specific and more old.
Anubis. Constellation-class. Egyptian divine tradition's senior representative in the Tower's upper architecture.
He looked at the letter for a moment before opening it.
