Two months after the network dissolved, the world had stabilized into a new kind of chaos. Not the organized control of the network's order, but the wild, unpredictable growth of genuine human freedom. Stock markets had recovered. Governments had reformed. Media had shifted toward truth-telling, though not perfectly. And the system, the real system, was becoming visible.
I was working eighteen-hour days at the Morgan Foundation's expanded headquarters. We had offices in twelve cities now, each one focused on teaching consciousness development and identifying potential system users. Marcus had built software that could recognize the patterns of sudden good fortune and improbable success that indicated system activation.
Elena was writing Catherine's biography, working with the Archive to
