Location:Ashford Crossing — Satellite Settlement / Seven Peaks — Formation Hall
Date/Time:TC1854.10.12
Coop visited Ashford Crossing on the second and fourth weeks of every month.
The circuit was routine — one of six satellite settlements he rotated through, checking formation systems, consulting with local administrators, and spending two hours with a middle-aged clerk named Petra Aldridge who had shown early indicators of Cognitect aptitude and was working through the foundational exercises on a jade slip Coop had copied for her. Petra was diligent, skeptical, and had no idea why meditation made her better at filing, but she'd stopped arguing about the connection after the third session when she'd reorganized the settlement's entire supply chain in her head during a breathing exercise and couldn't explain how.
