Structure endured.
Time ordered sequence.
Zodiac laws constrained behavior.
Reality persisted without collapse.
Yet something essential was missing.
The Grand Clock could permit existence—
but it could not observe it.
Law could define what was allowed,
but it could not recognize when it was being bent
without technically being broken.
And so, for the first time since Zero failed to remain alone,
the system encountered a limitation:
Law requires awareness
to remain absolute.
The Clock did not hesitate.
It did not deliberate.
It adapted.