Location:Seven Peaks — Formation Hall
Date/Time:TC1856.05.20 (Evening)
Coop landed at dusk. Sixteen hours on a sky-surfing blade, the lattice running continuous analysis the entire flight, the recording data from the sealed chamber organized into a presentation framework that would have made Silas weep with professional envy.
He didn't go to the command center. He went to the Formation Hall, where Kairos was already waiting — Raven's formation crystal message had arrived twelve hours ahead of Coop, and the Keeper had spent the intervening time clearing the workspace, cancelling the carrier wave analysis he'd been running for weeks, and preparing the dimensional perception framework that his mortal eyes couldn't quite manage but his cosmic awareness could still access in limited bursts.
