The constellation did not wait for the Predator's next move.
Waiting had been the habit of isolated systems—of experiments that lived under the assumption that pressure would eventually arrive from above or beyond. Waiting had meant survival through caution.
But the constellation was no longer a single world learning to endure.
It was a network.
And networks adapted.
Inside the Convergence Axis, the triad stood together at the heart of Ethan's world.
The chamber had been designed long before the constellation expanded—a place meant for system alignment, for monitoring convergence thresholds and stabilizing the flows of sovereign energy that pulsed through Ethan's domain.
Now it had become something far greater.
Lines of luminous architecture spiraled upward through the vast chamber like pillars of starlight. The entanglement lattice stretched across the room in layered projections—each thread representing a sovereign node somewhere in the vast dark beyond their world.
