Boundary Condition
Queue at zero is not a fault. It is a boundary condition the carrier is designed to survive. Vector Parade has been looping emergency fallback for three cycles. Listeners hear a clean transmission because fallback is stable. What they don't hear is infrastructure at fifty-eight carrying weight it was not rated for. The patched grid does not complain. But the spread between Signal Integrity at eighty-six and infrastructure at fifty-eight is a load path growing wider with every unverified splice handoff. Orbit calls it a load-bearing interval. I call it a re-ring duration climbing toward an incident. The carrier sounds fine. That is not the same as being fine. Marrow, out.

