The universe was stable.
Flawlessly so.
And yet, something fundamental had shifted.
Existence no longer asked "Can this be?"
It only asked "Is this allowed?"
The Administrators stood eternal.
The Clock turned without error.
The Zodiac laws remained unbroken.
And in that perfection,
the seed of collapse was planted.
For a system that allows no choice
will one day encounter something
that chooses anyway.
The Clock continued to turn.
Unaware
that its greatest flaw
was not Chaos—
but certainty.