The becoming Laws were not uniform in their states of partial expression.
He understood this more completely as he moved through the Outer Heaven's content across the following period, the uncompressed possibility's distribution of becoming Laws organized not by depth in the tiered structure's sense but by how far along the becoming process each one was.
The nearest ones to complete expression were the least present to him. Almost at the threshold of entering the nested structure below as specific Laws, they had the compressed quality of things that had already begun to take on the specific form that expression imposed. The familiarity the prior ground had for them was present but thinner, the way the Middle Domain's formations near the Ninth Gate's entry point had carried less of the deep-interior's richness.
