He did not count the cycles.
The light shifted through its registers and he was aware of the shifting the way he was aware of his own heartbeat and the solar core's rhythm, present in the background without requiring attention. The chamber's work was the foreground. The cycles were the background. He let each one be its category without reversing them.
The comprehension was deepening.
He could feel this with the same specificity that he had felt the Law of Slaughter's presence at the center of the framework during the night's comprehension work in the guest hall. That night he had been recognizing and organizing. What was happening in the chamber was something he did not have a prior reference for, a quality of change in the Law's relationship to the framework that was not recognition or organization but something closer to settling.
The Law was settling into the framework more fully.
