The three of them sat with the communication for a moment before anyone spoke.
Not dramatic silence—working silence, the kind that followed receiving something that required processing before response. Sekar was already writing notes. Nakamura had closed his eyes, attending inward through distributed consciousness the way he did when integrating new information across multiple simultaneous awareness threads. Rama sat with the three words and what they implied.
We see you.
Present tense. Ongoing. Not a historical statement about past observation but current declaration of active awareness. The framework wasn't describing what it had done. It was describing what it was doing right now, in this moment, through the integration connection that had always been there.
Sekar spoke first. "We need to tell the team."
"Yes," Rama agreed. "But we need to understand what we received before we describe it to people who didn't receive it."
