After eleven days of relentless signals, the structure falls silent—the pipe frozen, the console dark except for one word: threshold. Marcus steps barefoot onto the warm circle growing at the Atrium's heart, discovering what instruments could only measure from a distance: the temperature of skin after sleep. When the machines finally stop, the observers learn what their bodies already knew.

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