Location:Growth Zone Perimeter — Outer Zones
Date/Time:TC1856.01.12 (00:00 – 02:00)
They approached on foot.
No sky-surfing. The atmospheric distortion above the growth zone would have flagged their approach on every synchronization pulse in the network — five spiritual signatures moving at altitude, broadcasting their location to twenty-three thousand connected replacements. So they walked. Five people in formation-sealed suits that Silas had spent two weeks building, carrying recording crystals and anti-corruption treatments and the weight of what they were walking into, moving through winter darkness toward a perimeter of consumed earth eight kilometers from the Sanctum's center.
