Wren began threading immediately.
Not gradually — with the focused urgency of someone who had been waiting thirty-seven years for exactly this and was not going to waste a moment of having it. The Keeper of Threads' ability worked through the kingdom's System architecture the way water works through connected vessels — finding the channels, following the framework connections, maintaining the threads between nodes with the practiced efficiency of someone who had spent four decades learning how this particular kind of work was done.
By the second morning after contact the network felt different.
