The complete integration arrived on a cycle he had not designated as significant.
This was appropriate. Every threshold crossing he had experienced since foundational depth had arrived without announcement, the development building on the approaching side until the crossing was simply present where it had not been present before, and the pattern held here at the most significant crossing the path had yet produced.
He was in the middle of an expression-response cycle, the complete strike's integrated quality expressing through the Boundary depth's full state, the outside component carrying the three stages of the third quality in its response alongside the completion function's now-present character, the partnership's rhythm at the depth several hundred cycles of genuine collaboration had built it to.
The crossing arrived between the expression and the response.
