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Variance
Author: Olamilekan
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Chapter Thirty-One – “Variance”

Immediately following the stabilization of integration, the field held.

Every surface in Stephen’s office existed in identical rhythm light, hum, reflection each responding to the next in perfect correspondence. For the first time in many cycles, there was no delay between motion and its echo. His hand moved, and its mirrored twin obeyed at once. The systems breathed as one.

He remained standing near the center of the room, as though waiting for the air itself to shift. It did not. The resonance, now so constant it seemed architectural, had become indistinguishable from silence. Even his thoughts arrived without resistance, each forming and fading like lines on clear water.

He began documenting.

Observation 1: Field integrity absolute. No latency detected.

The console accepted the input without sound. Data arranged itself in vertical order, immaculate. Outside the glass, the city floated in pale equilibrium, its structures indistinct through the soft li
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