Rama spent the first evening alone.
Not avoiding the conversation with Sekar and Nakamura—that would come. But some things required private processing before collective discussion, and this was one of them. The Ambassador offer was addressed to Timeline 48 collectively but received by three individual people who would need to bring their individual answers to the same table.
He sat on the observatory deck. Singapore city below, entity manifestation signatures at the facility perimeter, the dimensional framework present in the way it had always been present—except that now he knew what presence meant.
What was actually being decided.
