The director had been working since the fourth hour.
When Kai arrived at the Division the following morning, he found the monitoring equipment reconfigured—a different sampling array from the one he had brought to zone nineteen's entry station, tuned to the Rift's oscillation at higher resolution than his standard instruments allowed. Three printouts covered the desk. The director had been writing in the margins of all three simultaneously, switching between them as the decode developed.
He looked up when Kai came in.
"Sit down," he said. He never said that. He stood when he received people. Kai sat.
The director placed the central printout on the desk between them.
