Chapter 163

Chapter 163 KAELOS The emergency session convened at dawn, three hours earlier than I had requested. Word of Ruvan's analysis had spread through the enhanced network faster than I'd anticipated—a reminder that in our interconnected world, secrets had become nearly impossible to maintain, even necessary ones. I stood at the head of the council chamber, watching delegates file in with expressions ranging from concern to barely controlled alarm. The holographic displays showed Ruvan's data in stark clarity: psychological displacement indices, segregation probability curves, innovation decline patterns. Numbers that painted a picture of slow-motion crisis. Seraphina took her position at my right, her presence steady through our bond despite the tension radiating from the assembled representatives. Ruvan occupied his usual station at the analytical console, surrounded by data streams that would have overwhelmed any conventional mind. "The floor recognizes the Integration Council," I announc