Observer's collective consciousness addressed Coalition council the following morning.
Not through Timeline Arbiter—directly. The collective consciousness that had sustained Champions across three years since convergence crisis, providing tactical support and institutional memory both, spoke to the council in the voice Champions recognized from years of operational interaction. Familiar and now fundamentally reframed simultaneously.
Rodriguez had arranged this deliberately. Timeline Arbiter's revelation addressed what Timeline was. Observer's address needed to explain what Observer had been—from inside, from the perspective of the consciousness that had actually experienced its own emergence. Arbiter could describe Observer's function accurately. Only Observer could describe what that function felt like from within.
Council chamber, full attendance. Observer's presence registering through the collective consciousness connection Champions integrated still maintained.
