Jiseok was quiet for a long moment.
"Sit down," he said.
Kang Min sat on the low block that had been used as a seat across the boundary work sessions. Jiseok moved to the working surface and picked up the finished piece, held it briefly with the quality of someone checking the weight of something they built, and set it back down.
He remained standing.
"I achieved convergence forty years ago," he said. "The process of achieving it produced a specific kind of understanding about what the Tower's design was built to do. I didn't arrive at that understanding in advance. I arrived at it from the other side of the process." He paused. "After ascension I had forty years in the constellation stream's architecture to study what the convergence had given me access to. The Tower's original design documentation. The administrative intelligence's records. The Compact's operational history and what the ceiling program was doing to the Tower's cultivation function."
