They didn't immediately take the restricted cut.
Zeus had Rhen held under open surveillance within the grey lane while Tohu examined the sealed mark to its legal extent. It was continuity-bound enough to tempt residual force within Zeus's system, but otherwise properly dead-ended to warrant full reading disruption. Worse, Rhen's description of it deepened its dangers. Restart terminated potential.
Athena re-stated the phrase with judicial care. 'Not restoration of our world. Not reversal of judgment. Restart through living carriers.'
'The old design is gone,' Rhen said. 'What continuity of this class retains is the opportunity for re-originating the subset that remains through those who preserve active remainder.' He sat on a broken route-block with the ease of a doomed man, 'Yes,' Rhen said. 'The old design is gone. What continuity of this class retains is the opportunity for re-originating the subset that remains through those who preserve active remainder.'
