He told them at the stone arrangement's edge, sitting on the ground with the Source Point's opening behind him.
All three things. The Rifts as symptoms. The deep pressure in the substrate. The road network built to give the entities a complete management channel so the pressure could be processed without breaking through the surface unmanaged. The carrier's function at Source Point integration—not five Rifts, the whole pressure field, read and managed through the Architect's coordination layer. And the third thing: the designer left no instructions for what came next. That part belonged to the carrier.
When he finished, no one spoke for a moment.
Soren was the first.
"The deep pressure," he said. "Is it measurable? From the surface?"
