CHAPTER 59: WHEN THE SCHEDULE BREAKS ITSELF
The First Hunger had become a system that no longer simply distributed attention, it now scheduled existence like a fragile computation running too close to its own limits. Rowan felt the structure strain in ways that were not collapse, not instability, but temporal misalignment between what was being observed and what was still trying to remain continuous without observation. The cycles of awareness that once created stability through segmentation were beginning to overlap in unintended ways, producing interference patterns the system had never accounted for. It was not failure yet. It was friction between schedules. Rowan stood within that friction, where even her presence no longer aligned cleanly with any single attentional window. “The cyc
