The work at ten was quieter than the work before ten.
Not less — quieter. The specific quality of work that runs in the between-space's own rhythm rather than against the wound's resistance. The correction work in the territories where the wound was still primary continued with the same urgency it had always carried. The network reached new territories. The school trained new classes. The oversight board addressed specific cases.
But the center of gravity had shifted.
He noticed it in how he spent his days.
Before ten: the field work, the territories, the between-space technique at depth in the root networks, the urgency of cases that needed immediate attention. The work coming to him as much as he went to it.
After ten: the school's deep layer sessions with three or four students per class. The oversight board on Tuesdays. The archive work with Dael. The intake desk receiving people alongside his mother in the afternoons when the queue grew.
