The registry cycle began while Nox still stood outside the Authority gate. A red timer appeared above Parcel Zero, counted down from sixty, and copied itself into Diana's surviving city feeds.
[ Three-registry invalidation condition active. ]
[ Population, Territory, and Authority must fail within sixty seconds. ]
The foreclosure wall had cut the Authority gate from the Territory Registry, but it had not erased the routes that existed before District Eight. Nox opened the Citadel map beside Vasa's canal measurements and watched old corridors remain visible under the gray overlay.
The library basement passage remained in use because clinic crews knew its exits. The tournament had opened the armory corridor, and Emilia registered evacuation lanes when the roads began shifting. Each route had a physical endpoint, a user log, and witnesses who could say why it existed.
