Touching the Moon

"Sit down," Ariha said, rubbing her forehead. "There seems to be too much of a gap in your knowledge about the Way."

"Way?" He raised an eyebrow. "Way, as in the way of power?"

"Not just power," she said. "The Way encompasses the universe, perhaps universes... The Way is endless. There is no beginning or end to it, we are merely edgewalkers, trying to comprehend the intricacies since the beginning of time. 

"If we were to divide the path we had managed to comprehend with all our rich history..." she let the silence hang for a moment. She sucked in a breath as the pattern swirled around her. "In the time of my rise, we had ten huge steps into the Way... however, in the time of the other me, another step was carved, which brought the war down on the realms."

A frown crept to his brows, as some form of conjecture came to him. "So, copper, iron, silver, gold, these are the huge steps you are talking about?"