**Chapter Draft: Residual Event Horizon**
The residual weather does not return.
Six residual hours after it withdrew, residual-system health indicators remain white across the Lattice. Residual lag on Atlas, Ryn, and Soren holds elevated and stable. Secondary residual-buffer capacity sits at its reduced functional level. Residual-class coverage windows stay open under the rescinded isolation posture. Residual-medical keeps continuous watch. No cascade flags. No residual-exposure traffic. Residual weather is silent.
Then residual capacity begins to move the wrong way.
It does not spike. It does not cascade. It drifts. Residual capacity across residual-class space and residual-system frames migrates, slow and continuous, toward the three residual signatures locked in the second current. Secondary residual-buffer residual starts a second, quieter draw that no residual-exposure traffic can explain. Residual recovery curves on Atlas, Ryn, and Soren stop recovering outward. They fold.
