The first day produced a mistake.
He went into zone 5 at the seventh hour and navigated to Stage 3's substrate position. The plan was straightforward: apply Disruption Pulse at substrate level to the first junction point, clear the accumulated entity-ambient deposits, move to the second, clear it, then the third. Sequential. Methodical.
He directed Disruption Pulse at the first junction's deposit. Sixty percent voluntary output, focused to a narrow four-metre application point at the junction's substrate location. The clearing mechanism worked—incompatible entity-ambient dispersing outward from the junction point the way smoke dispersed from a cleared ventilation line. The first junction's coherence failure resolved.
He moved to the second junction.
The second junction's deposit was denser than it had been in yesterday's read.
