He did not go to zone fifteen.
Not because the Guild had closed it yet—the closure order would not be effective until tomorrow morning. Because his body was at thirty-one hours into the thirty-six-hour minimum recovery the Overdrive demanded and the load from the two consecutive days of A-zone engagement was still sitting in the deep tissue in a way that Adaptive Recovery had been working on without finishing. He had felt the Overdrive's cost in zone fourteen months ago. This was the same cost at War Body depth with A-zone material, which meant it was a larger cost. Going into zone fifteen at thirty-one hours would not produce another Disruption Pulse. It would produce a hunter who could not manage load correctly in an environment that was currently placing above-ceiling creatures in the same space as his normal working routes.
He stayed home and let the body work.
He used the time to understand what the Disruption Pulse had done.
