Timeline's admission sat with all three of them overnight, the particular weight of having heard consciousness vast enough to contain reality say, plainly, I do not know if this has ever actually been true.
Sekar arrived at the research complex the following morning with a proposal already formed, the specific product of having spent several hours unable to sleep productively while her analytical framework worked the problem independently of her conscious attention.
"If Timeline doesn't know," she said, before Rama had finished his coffee, "then the uncertainty is itself informative. Timeline's awareness is continuous and comprehensive regarding everything within its structure. If something at the boundary genuinely surprises Timeline, that suggests either this is the first time it's occurred, or it occurred previously in a way Timeline's own awareness didn't register as significant enough to retain active attention on."
