The two-stages-above-Sovereign entity was aware of his approach before the Observer flagged the closing distance.
He felt its awareness register him the way he had felt the mountain's deep zone entities register him, a quality change in the territory rather than a visible response, the upper reaches' accord-spaces between the surrounding formations shifting slightly in their expression as the entity's attention redistributed to account for what was moving toward it.
He kept walking.
The entity's Law-composition had been partially readable since his first day in the upper reaches, the Observer's Sovereign calibration range providing enough resolution to confirm the depth without providing the full picture the Law required. Now, at the closer range of approach, the picture developed.
A Law of completion.
