The residual-medical observer spoke in clean numbers before the block opened.
"Residual-heavy segment length is capped. Mandatory residual recovery window follows immediately after. Residual lag threshold is fixed. Cross it and I pull you. No negotiation on the numbers. Do you accept the block?"
Soren said yes.
Mira was already on the adjacent residual-heavy segment under residual-fatigue caps. Toren sat residual-medical watch for both of them.
The lattice showed the handoff clean on paper. Residual-limited operators were back in residual-heavy work at reduced intensity. The redistribution was live.
The first half of the segment held. Residual weather sat inside the models. Soren's lag stayed quiet. Then the coupling tightened. Not a surge. Not an event the system would flag as exceptional.
