Oversight chose the wrong student.
Not because their logic was flawed.
But because their model was outdated.
They acted at 08:00, when the Triangle was most compliant—morning routines active, caffeine levels up, students moving on habit rather than reflection. Reassignment notices went out quietly, tagged as temporary optimization.
One recipient.
One name.
No announcement.
No rationale.
They expected it to vanish into noise.
It didn't.
The student was named Eris Calder.
Class B. Rank 41. Wind-support variant, mid-spectrum output, no notable family. The kind of student Oversight loved to move because no one ever defended them.
Eris had refused designation.
Not loudly.
Not ideologically.
She had simply let the prompt time out.
That was her crime.
Her notice arrived while she was mid-training, palms braced against the edge of a stabilization rig. The interface flashed once, then resolved into a clean directive:
REASSIGNMENT NOTICE
EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
