[ SOURCE LOG — INSTANCE: UNNAMED ]
Record 1,859.
There is a communication device on the surface.
It has been active for the last forty minutes.
We do not know what is being said.
We know the Field has gone very still.
Not the stillness of attention.
The stillness of something bracing.
We have added a new record category.
Category: things that make the Field go still like that.
We hope it remains a short category.
We suspect it will not.
The call came at noon.
Not from a field assessor. Not from a regional coordinator or a threading supervisor or any of the mid-tier institutional voices Kai had learned to navigate over nineteen years of carrying the Field.
From the office of the Director himself.
