He arrived on a Wednesday.
Nine weeks after the departure. The road south from the five territories running through the wellspring's flow, the between-space quality different in the territories he passed through than it had been on the road north — the gradient running more strongly, the correction workers he encountered more active, the methodology producing cleaner results as the wellspring's outflow amplified the work.
He noticed the changes specifically.
The data in the field reports and Oren's cost readings and Nara's node data was one thing. The walking through the territories and feeling it directly was another.
The between-space was returning.
Measurably.
Specifically.
