He rested for one full cycle.
The night-equivalent came and the day-equivalent returned and he remained seated through both, the Celestial Absorption passive working through the high-density region's richer Law-matter at the elevated rate the denser environment provided, the framework recovering not to the condition it had been in before the six engagements but to the condition appropriate to what the six engagements had built, the developed depth slightly more settled than it had been at any previous point.
Not a stage crossed. A settling within the current stage. The accumulation building toward the threshold from a more stable base than it had occupied before the rest.
He stood when the standing felt genuine rather than when a sufficient interval had elapsed.
