Peak arrived five weeks later.
Not six weeks as Dael had projected — five. The natural integration running faster than expected as the full presence arrived in the territories ahead of schedule, the virtuous cycle in the established territories producing a cascade that Dael documented with the specific expression of a pattern reader encountering something that exceeded the model.
The virtuous cycle is accelerating the full presence's arrival independently of the dungeon work, Dael reported. The honest participation in the post-threshold territories generating more between-space presence than the model projected. The between-space concentrating in honest participation faster than the baseline rate. The dormant fragments integrating naturally ahead of schedule.
Five weeks instead of six.
The peak at eleven hundred and forty-seven active dungeons rather than fourteen hundred.
Still the hardest work he had done.
The two weeks at peak — stretched and compressed and then released.
