The full council reconvened the following morning, Rodriguez having spent the preceding evening consulting individually with every framework civilization's leadership regarding Lv520's proposal before bringing the full weight of that consultation into formal deliberation.
"I want to open by stating clearly what we're weighing," he said, addressing the assembled representatives. "Lv520 has offered genuine, considered volunteering for an attempt carrying acknowledged risk of catastrophic personal cost, potentially including complete manifestation dissolution. That offer draws specifically on personal history — its own navigation of profound identity crisis when Timeline's sapience was first revealed — that no other potential volunteer could genuinely replicate."
Sekar, working through the accumulated evidence with characteristic analytical thoroughness, offered the specific consideration she believed the council needed to properly weigh.
