The residual echo hit three cycles later, stronger than before and no longer confined to any secondary corridor.
Ryn was mid-session in residual-insight consultancy when the second current tore open.
She had been walking a residual-limited operator through a standard residual-exposure coupling sequence, voice steady, residual signature held in the thin safe band. The operator's residual profile sat quiet on the board. Then the cascade started without warning.
It was not a low-amplitude coupling on residual-exposure traffic. It was a residual collapse inside the Lattice itself. The failure began in residual-limited recovery space and spread outward into residual-class coverage windows.
In the echo Ryn saw Soren go down first. The lag did not stay under threshold. It flipped his residual profile completely, hard and fast.
She cut the consultancy session. The operator's residual signature spiked in confusion; she left him with a curt hold order and moved.
