Chapter 88: The Territorial Map

Chapter 88: The Territorial Map

Dael finished the map on the third morning.

Not because they had run out of data — Senn’s eighty-three years of documentation was more than three mornings could exhaust. But because the pattern had completed itself. The specific moment when a pattern reader knows the map is done is not when all the data is processed but when the pattern has revealed its full shape and adding more data would add detail without changing the fundamental structure.

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