[The Silent Threshold — Interior — Day 67 — 11:20 AM]
The entrance threshold was three meters wide.
Seraph passed first.
Kira second.
Alex at the center with Grim.
The entrance threshold produced something — no sound, no light, no visible change in the environment. But the moment Alex crossed the plane between the exterior and the interior, all three Fragments responded simultaneously.
[F1 — passive resonance active]
[F4 — passive resonance active]
[F5 — passive resonance active]
No corruption rise. Resonance — the kind of response the Fragments had when in the presence of something of the same origin, like F4 recognizing the previous bearer Daren. But broader. All three at the same time. The Silent Threshold recognizing all three Fragments in Alex as parts of something the Threshold had known when it was whole.
"Corruption?" said Seraph without turning.
"Unchanged." Alex. "But all three are responding."
"Pain?"
