He went to the director in the morning.
He told him about the full integration state. Not the mechanism or the substrate or the pool percentages—those were internal and would mean less to the director than the observable outcome. He described it the way the director described the Rift's monitoring data: as a change in the system's operational parameters, what it affected, what it did not affect.
The director listened. When Kai finished, he was quiet for a moment.
"When the Rift reaches 150 metres," he said, "I need to be present."
He said it with the specific quality of someone stating a requirement rather than a preference. Not I would like to be there. Not I think it would be useful. I need to be present.
