The Pattern Lab is one of the few places in the Array that feels like it belongs to me.
It’s half data vault, half crime scene wall — Vein maps layered over incident logs, resonance spikes rendered in three-dimensional glyph clusters, a whole history of mistakes and near-apocalypses pinned up in light.
Right now, the brightest spike on the main display is labeled:
DOCK SEVEN — HARMONIC EVENT / ECHO + STORM.
Theron’s handiwork. Nyra’s release.
The lattice graph curves up so hard it clips the top of the scale.
Command had to add a new axis.
I should be thinking about the implications for Sel A.
Instead, I’m thinking about the fact that when that spike hit, every single thread in the Veins said the same thing in the same instant:
Nyra.
I’ve been trying not to replay it. The way sh
