The eastern residual scarring closed around the circle in layers of distorted stone and unstable temporal gradients. Sound and distance became unreliable again, though the effect was thinner than the deeper network the group had used earlier. The dual residual locks followed without interruption. Primary claim pressure and secondary residual marking were tracked as separate, equally valid targets. The residual wills no longer needed a shared interface to treat both signatures as active claims under the Gathering's count.
Primary internal progression continued its climb under the combined weight of self-sustaining scar momentum and direct residual attention.
[Primary claim internal progression: 81%]
