Lysara closed her eyes for a brief moment during the final synchronization, then opened them again and looked toward the diagnostic displays, taking in the flow of data without rushing to speak. When she finally did, her voice was calm, but there was a quiet certainty in it.
"It's good," she said. "Different, but good."
Aurelian didn't move right away. He kept his attention on her rather than on the screens.
"How good?" he asked.
"I can use most of it already," she replied after a short pause. "Not perfectly. I'll need time to adjust before I push it fully, but it's stable, and there's no rejection."
That was what mattered.
Not whether it was perfect.
Just that it worked.
There was no rejection, no instability, no sign that the system would fail under pressure, and that alone was enough to ease the tension that had been sitting in the room since the installation began.
