Dael finished the map on the third morning.
Not because they had run out of data — Senn's eighty-three years of documentation was more than three mornings could exhaust. But because the pattern had completed itself. The specific moment when a pattern reader knows the map is done is not when all the data is processed but when the pattern has revealed its full shape and adding more data would add detail without changing the fundamental structure.
The map covered three large sheets of paper — Kael's mother would have approved of the preparation, Dael having asked Senn for the materials on the first evening and having them available when the reading was complete.
The territorial root network.
Not just the settlement.
The full territory — approximately eight hundred square kilometers, the area that Senn's documentation covered, the specific geography of the region that the pre-System suppression had been embedded in for longer than the documentation could confirm.
