The second residual current did not fade.
Three days after the mixed-district surge, Ryn still felt Soren's baseline residual state as a low, steady pressure at the edge of her own field. It was stronger when he was actively reading—tight, focused, the kind of attention that narrowed around a coupling signature—and weaker when he was not. It never dropped to zero.
She could quiet her own residual field at the end of a shift the way she always had, but the quiet never fully settled. Something else remained, tuned to the same frequency the surge had forced through both of them.
Soren felt the same from her direction. Her consultancy-side residual load sat in his field like a second layer of weather he had not asked for.
His stronger sensitivity to medical-transit coupling now carried an echo of her patterns. Some of his quiet flags came out cleaner in the bands she had been tracking. Others picked up noise that belonged to her workload, not his.
