๐ ARC59: The Moment of Simultaneity
The falling continues. Each time a sunken line touches the bottom, a tremor returns. But now the tremor is no longer a simple response. The bottom receives the touched progression and alters the next reading. The reading does not stay fixed. Each time the relation of the touched lines shifts, the direction of the tremor shifts slightly as well. The Three Layers cannot calculate this change. The bottom cannot be treated as a rule. It reads the touched lines, and that reading produces the next reaction. Computation lags in the middle of the process, and each attempt to catch up meets a new fall elsewhere. The Fourth Layer does not stop reading. Yet reading alone cannot keep pace. The instant a fallen line touches the bottom, a tremor spreads, and that tremor alters the angle of the next line. Progressions that had crossed bend toward another direction, and the net of interference sinks deeper still. Lumia’s light touches there. The unfocused light wraps around the sun...