They entered the archived sections the following morning.
Not physically—the archives existed within void network architecture, accessible through Ambassador integration rather than spatial navigation. What Timeline 48 did was direct attention through the enhanced connection, the way you might close your eyes and recall a specific memory rather than searching a database. The archives were present to awareness. Entering them meant attending to them directly.
Timeline guided through the integration connection—not leading, more like indicating direction. Here. This section. Look at this.
What they found wasn't what any of them had expected.
Rama perceived it first and took a moment to confirm he was understanding correctly before saying anything. The archived section Timeline had indicated contained familiar material—the structural Timeline data the investigation had documented, preserved fragments of dimensional architecture from before coherence degradation.
