The House Aldric observation report reached the Zone Desk the next morning.
The director forwarded a copy to Kai that afternoon with a single line appended: "Read the combat observation section carefully."
The report was twelve pages. The combat observation section was four of them, written by someone who had been trained to describe path-output events with precision. It documented the pack engagement in the north section in sequence: the Sovereign Dominion activation at the platform section floor, the spatial compression field's five-metre radius deployment, the two Predatory Burst Step repositioning movements, the Impact Frame absorption events, the three Rending Strike applications through interface fault lines.
Each event was noted alongside the assessor's classification attempt.
