The eastern district was open. He did not go.
Not that day. Not the next. He ran zone fourteen with Dorath's team on Thursday and zone twelve with a solo contract on Friday and kept his movement in the western and central sections of the city where the path-density from the Rift frame was lower and the voluntary protocol's logic still applied even without the legal restriction.
The protocol had been about managing the sovereign pressure events by managing the environment. The events had been triggered by elevated path-complexity near him—multi-expression creatures, high-rank output, Rift infrastructure. The Rift frame itself, which the director's file had described as producing the highest path-density in the city, was the environment most likely to trigger an event above what any monitoring report had yet recorded.
He was not ready to find out what that looked like.
Not yet.
