One hundred and eighty seconds to decide between integration and severance. Between maintaining consciousness within network structure or losing everything the Void System had provided and returning to baseline human capacity. Between becoming part of collective that spanned dimensional reality or remaining individual with autonomy that might be illusion.
Amaron had approximately fifteen seconds to process the options before everyone in the briefing room began reacting to consciousness network presence manifesting around them. Some recognized what was happening—the temporal anomalies who'd known about their displacement status for years. Others just felt pressure building without understanding source or purpose. All of them were experiencing identical activation sequence. Twenty-three people in this building. All temporal anomalies. All being activated simultaneously for convergence that would integrate human consciousness into network structure permanently.
