She finished it on a Saturday afternoon in the seventh week of the central administrative extension.
He knew because the primary bond shifted in the mid-afternoon with the specific, distinct quality he had learned to recognize — the particular warmth of Seraphine being present in something until it reached its completion, followed by the quiet, internal exhale of a person who has brought a thing to its end and is sitting with the fact of that ending before it is witnessed by anyone else.
He was in the lower resonance chamber reviewing the central administrative segment's week-six monitoring data when the completion arrived through the bond. The data was clean — the coherence metrics holding, every configured connection point maintaining its geometry within the tolerance ranges Kaelith had established in the first session.
He set the data down.
He walked upstairs to the east wing.
