In orbit, the assisting Watcher prepared to leave.
Not in retreat.
In completion.
Ternary stability self-sustaining across observed sectors, it transmitted.
Other Watchers had long since adopted participation doctrine.
Collapse events had reduced dramatically.
The Hunger no longer manifested as catastrophic expansion.
It resolved early.
The Watcher turned its geometric form toward Kaito.
Axis designation obsolete.
Kaito smiled faintly.
"Good."
New designation: Catalyst.
He shook his head.
"No designation."
A pause.
Then—
Acknowledged.
The Watcher folded space around itself—
And vanished.