Chapter 27.4 — When the System Tries Not to Be Seen

☺️ Chapter 27.4 is where the distortion stops behaving like a quiet, misfired echo and begins showing intent. If 27.3 hovered at the edge of perception, then this chapter lets the anomaly lean forward—still subtle, still low-amplitude, but undeniably purposeful. What matters here isn’t escalation; it’s direction. The system chooses when to appear, what to bend, and which pieces of Riven’s attention to claim. This chapter closes the “selective interference” quartet, sharpening the emotional through-line: not danger, but clarity—the sense that something has finally decided to answer back.