The work settled into rhythm on the second day.
Not the emergency rhythm of the kingdom's first weeks — the liberation teams moving in four directions, the combined signal running sustained, the regional council challenge playing out against the clock. This rhythm was older and slower and more deliberate. The rhythm of someone doing careful work in a specific medium that required precision over speed.
Each morning: two sessions in the between-space. Three to four root nodes per session. Spirit recovery between them. Nara reading the node data after each session to confirm the disruption, the Framework Memory tracking the transition layer interference reduction, documenting which nodes produced what changes in the fragment-carriers nearby.
Each afternoon: the community.
Because the between-space work was half the work.
The other half was what happened to the people whose fragments expressed.
