"The asymmetry," I said.
Lucien nodded.
"The Cult is operating one project. We are operating four. Their project requires their success across the entirety. Our four projects are independent — any one of them succeeding is a meaningful closure even if the others slip. Three of the four are already operationally ahead of the Cult's response capacity. The fourth — the founding ceremony — is the work of the next forty-six days. The asymmetry is — favorable. The favor is not certainty. It is a tilt in the geometry."
"How tilted," Draven said.
Lucien thought.
