Chapter 290: Conducting
The entity chose to conduct at dawn.
Kai was at the gorge edge when it happened — sitting with his notebook and a cup that had gone cold. Pool at eighty-four percent. He had slept through the night and woken before Soren or Mira, which was unusual.
The field changed.
Not the way it had changed when he placed anchor sixty. That had been structural — the field recognizing its own completeness, the way a door changes when the last support in a frame is in place. This was different. The field began to move.
He set the cup down.
