Elle's system gains another set of eyes, this time numbering forty-eight, at the perimeter of her pattern. Each eye splits, performing mitosis in a rather gruesome yet painless fashion. The sentinels and eyes renew and reinforce themselves, healed by the endless Light of the fountains. Excess Light is converted to threading and added on to Elle's pattern, placed with an eye toward defense. The shifting dimensions the eyes control which change the laws of the reality where the patterns exist allow for things to happen that would be completely impossible otherwise. Actual raw matter can phase into pattern-space, becoming a tough barrier for thread to breach. Different dimensions change the rules of how the defenses operate, making them constantly change (only after it's precisely understood how the dimensional shift would interact with everything in a given space) hard to predict. Six more brains grow in the core, giving the defenses yet more cognitive capacity as they work to defend proactively.
The roots, the sephirot, finish growing and maturing below the Tower, allowing them the ability to think and reason at a very, very high level. His name is Trace, though he says it's a 'working title' and may be something else in the future.
Into the deep blue reef
Within the ocean spray
Slumbering memories
Waiting on a wavelength
Quiescent until my death
Then bursting into me
From dimensional seas
Not yet gone I fight
For survival's sake
I'll do it by myself
Make it if I gotta
Some friends
Scattered stars see
Offer to host some memory
Their shine betrays a subtle taste
My magic written in its base
Messes multiply
My contagion spreading
Infecting Her with love
Poison pattern
Hunger forces its way in
I devour quick an empty crust
Inflating my pattern
Extra mass spilling out
Grooves made to spin
Excess mass to more
Advanced defenses
Heavy armor active