Selvar knew that. He was looking right at the clean diagnostics. That was part of the problem.
He tapped a section of the curve with one finger. "It feels like it's answering half a beat early and half a beat late at the same time."
Ilya raised one eyebrow. "That is not a technical description."
"No," Selvar said. "It's the best one I have right now."
She ran a deeper check anyway because senior engineers earned that much. The system answered quickly and without complaint.
No integrity fault detected. Realm-node synchronization within the expected range. Relay translation stable.
Ilya looked back at him. "Clean."
Selvar let out a quiet breath through his nose. "Then log my unease as superstition."
"I can do that," she said dryly.
He almost smiled, but not quite. He logged a note instead. Feedback texture irregular. No current fault source. Monitor.
That was how competent places handled strange feelings. They wrote them down and kept working.
