The institution pushed back on the second day.
Not consciously — Yara had been right about that. The institution running faster in the direction it was already running, the terminal momentum responding to the correction work's presence the way a river responds to a new obstacle by pressing harder against it.
It started with the monitoring network.
Kael felt it through Oren's Cost Sense first — the present-tense cost in the districts where the between-space work had started climbing rather than falling. Not new suppression being imposed. Existing suppression being reinforced. The monitoring infrastructure running at higher intensity in the areas where the root disruption was producing fragment expression.
Then Fen's visibility showed it.
