Soren was right about the Disruption Pulse.
He had been right about most things over the past year and Kai had learned to treat his conclusions as data rather than opinion. The repair would require sustained low-output Disruption Pulse application at substrate level—not the crisis-triggered burst from zone fifteen's fight, not the Overdrive-fired full-radius pulse. A controlled application. Which required the thing the pulse did not yet have: voluntary control.
He spent three days on it before departure.
Not in the zones. At the eastern district stable corridor, where the road connection ran closest to the surface and the sovereign seed had the clearest possible path to the mechanism it needed to reach.
