[SYSTEM OBSERVATION LOG]
The system watched six signals moving at once.
This was new. Its records reached back through countless sessions, and novelty had long since become rare. Yet this was something it had never observed before.
Each signal represented the fourth one. Each existed in a different space.
The system verified this carefully. It compared the first signal with the second and found them impossible to reconcile. It added the third and discovered the contradiction growing worse. When the remaining three were included, the pattern became undeniable.
The fourth one had been divided across six locations.
Those locations shared no similarity the system could identify.
Earlier, someone in the chamber had called the division tidy. Now that the system itself was doing the accounting, the word no longer seemed particularly useful.
It began describing the spaces.
The first space fell upward.
