Maya discovers the hatch is warm for the first time a threshold the sealed structure has never crossed before. The disc Marcus measured on Day 3 is gone, finished rather than erased. As temperatures rise and objects complete, the observers realize they're witnessing something fundamental shifting inside the Core.

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