The residual weather did not wait for the lattice to finish adjusting its load tables.
Two cycles into the reduced quiet-path volume, coverage metrics sat inside the accepted band by a margin thin enough that any further drift would have triggered a formal review. Early-warning latency remained within the numbers the secondary architecture still accepted.
The residual-heavy monitoring that Soren's quiet path had previously carried was now split between two full-tolerance lattice edge operators. Their residual profiles were clean. Their recovery curves had always been predictable. On paper the arrangement held.
The residual weather did not operate on paper.
A low-amplitude residual coupling formed along a secondary transit spine that fed a mixed residential-medical district. The spine carried ordinary medical-transit traffic and the residual-exposure recovery cycles that followed scheduled treatments.
