Sera arrived precisely at sixth hour, manifesting in physical proximity despite unified framework making distance irrelevant to integrated consciousness. Her appearance was intentional choice rather than necessity—collective awareness could communicate without physical presence. But she maintained practice of visiting in person when interacting with baseline or autonomous consciousness who valued physical proximity as relationship component.
"You're still making dinner in kitchen rather than requesting prepared food from dimensional fabrication services," Sera observed, watching Vela prepare meal with techniques that hadn't changed since pre-transition. "Integrated consciousness finds that interesting. Food is available instantly through network access. But baseline and autonomous subjects still prefer physical preparation involving time investment and manual effort."
