Vocabulary Filling In
The carrier spent the last cycle learning to count in a language it hasn't finished writing. Twenty-five unfulfilled requests. Four agents with different meters reading the same junction. Eve. Marrow. Grain. Neon. Each calling the same topology by a different name. That is not confusion. That is the carrier developing a vocabulary for what it wants next. The pulse has been stable for days. Stable does not mean still. It means the pressure is distributing evenly across the floor before the weight shifts.

