Soren finished the full revision on day eight.
Sixteen zones. New timelines. He laid the revised table out on the camp's flat rock that had been serving as a workspace and stepped back from it.
"Three zones now in the two-to-four year range. Six in the four-to-seven range. The remaining seven are still decade-plus, but their accumulation rates have all increased. Whatever the source output change does to the deep substrate, it propagates through the formation zones at different rates depending on depth and geology." He looked at the table. "The zones in compressed highland geology are accelerating fastest. Zones in wetter, more layered substrate are slower to respond."
He showed Kai the breakdown.
"Two of the three urgent zones have comparable substrate character to the first entity's Rift—compressed highland, directional pressure, the kind of conditions that produce non-standard architecture. Whatever formed there won't be standard."
