[Fable Architecture Integrity: 7/9 pillars intact]
[World-Eater Manifestation: ACTIVE]
[Passive drain field: expanding]
[Kang Min Mana: 7%]
[Reality Coherence: 44%]
The first pillar cracked and didn't fall.
I had hit the Norse pillar — the narrative of permanence, inevitability, the World-Eater as eternal fact rather than creature — and the crack ran from the base to two-thirds of the way up. A clean fracture line. In the old world the Tower's approximation had collapsed from a single sustained strike. The direct invocation responded differently. The fracture appeared and held, and then the pillar's light redistributed — I watched the glow shift sideways, bleeding into the adjacent Egyptian pillar, reinforcing it against the stress.
The fable was aware of what I was doing and was responding.
