The teaching took two days.
Not because the Seeker was slow — it processed at a speed that made Calder's pre-System reference texts look like preliminary sketches. What took two days was the translation problem. The Seeker's framework and the System's architecture operated on different principles, and showing someone how to do something that you did instinctively required first understanding what instinct actually was.
Kael had never tried to explain the Stabilization function before.
He'd activated it. Used it. Felt it work. He understood it the way you understand breathing — completely, without being able to describe the mechanism.
The first morning was spent finding a shared language.
