For several minutes, the pulse made sense.
Felix sat with one hand at the local cue, his core maintaining the steady personal circulation he knew. Farther along the permitted gallery, the single source began, held, and changed.
He noticed the local cue without losing the remote impression.
When the observer checked the session time, he asked for one short extension.
She gave the agreed allowance and entered its end.
The next good observation arrived before the allowance finished. Felix held it in his attention, trying to distinguish the exact point where the faint return changed from something received into something he expected.
The stop cue came.
“Active test ends,” he said.
