The director's note arrived on the second day of recovery.
He read it lying on the bed with the right arm still running Adaptive Recovery's slower second phase—the deep tissue work that happened below the threshold of awareness, the body repairing what the faster surface processes had not reached.
The note was longer than usual.
The Rift's oscillation amplitude spiked yesterday at 14:31. I was watching the monitoring data when it happened. The timing corresponds exactly to your combat event in zone fourteen.
Zone fourteen is 2.3 kilometres from the Rift frame. In twenty years of monitoring this Rift, I have not seen it respond to a combat event at that distance. I have seen it respond to sovereign pressure events at distances up to 600 metres. I have seen it respond to the three-channel absorption you performed six weeks ago. I have not seen it respond to combat output.
