The third entity of the upper reaches carried a Law the Observer resolved with a clarity that surprised him.
He had expected the upper reaches' content to become progressively harder to read as he moved deeper into the territory, the stage-above-Sovereign depth requiring the Observer's partial resolution range at its limit for each engagement. The third entity's Law came back fully resolved rather than at the partial limit, the organizing principle clear and complete in the reading before he had closed to engagement range.
A Law of stillness.
He had encountered it before. In the standard Middle Domain's landscape, near the entry zone, a formation organized around the premise that the state before movement was the most complete state, that every action was a departure from a completeness that only the unacted contained.
This was the same Law.
At the stage above Sovereign.
