Indra made contact above floor eighty-one.
Not through a floor's scenario architecture, not through the constellation stream's standard communication channel. Through the native-level space directly — a being at Indra's position in the Tower's hierarchy having native-level access as a matter of its existing standing, the upper architecture's spatial logic extending to entities who had been in it long enough to qualify as partial natives even without the convergence process.
The contact arrived in the transit between floors eighty-one and eighty-two as a direct presence rather than a communication signal. Indra occupying the native-level space alongside him the way the pre-Tower presence had been occupying it since floor eighty, but with the specific quality of an entity that had something it wanted to say.
"You submitted the documentation," Indra said.
"Three days ago," Kang Min said.
