The fourth entity's Law resolved as he closed the distance.
A Law of erosion. The organizing premise that the most persistent force was not the sharpest or the strongest but the most sustained, that given enough time the continuous application of even modest pressure reshaped whatever it contacted more completely than any single forceful impact could.
He stopped at engagement range and let the identification function complete its picture.
The Law of erosion at the stage above established was a patient Law. Like the return entity in the high-density region it operated through time rather than through instantaneous force, but where the return entity had tried to reset the engagement the erosion entity was simply wearing, applying its organizing principle to everything it contacted continuously and without interval.
It had already begun.
