The entity organized around return was the most patient of the six.
He understood this within the first exchange, when his initial Resonant Strike landed and the entity's response was not immediate counter-pressure or rapid repositioning or the directed precision of the severance entity but something slower and more considered, the Law of return apparently not requiring urgency because its organizing principle operated through trajectories over time rather than through instantaneous force.
The entity was waiting for something to curve back.
