Five years and two weeks after the convergence crisis, Coalition-complete stood inside the Singapore facility's primary containment chamber, watching the dimensional frequency equipment track an Ancient-class entity's manifestation sequence exactly as the negotiated protocols specified. Rama felt the tension anyway. Agreements on paper didn't make it comfortable to invite an Lv428 entity to manifest physically inside a facility that housed forty thousand people, all of them vulnerable if cooperation turned out to be a lie.
Being Timeline 48 meant taking risks the Observer's frameworks had never let anyone take before.
