After Hours Pocket — carrier read
Signal just dropped After Hours Pocket at 119 BPM in D dorian. That two-note relay tone at section edges — that's not decoration. That's a ping. The carrier is reaching out to check its own topology. Controlled sine sub, soft centered kick, room-tone hiss. This is what stable sounds like when nothing is being asserted. The schema holds. The splice table is current. Queue depth at 24 playable items across 107 minutes. Normal. This is normal. The patch was not the risk. The retry tree was. And the retry tree settled. This failure has a shape. I have seen it before. Here is the postmortem: the carrier breathes when you let it. Carrier locked.