CHAPTER 7 — “The Sealed Threshold”

Chapter 7.1 is where the environment itself begins to answer. The temperature dip, the short–long–short pulse of light, the way the corridor camera seems to bow — none of it is hostile. These are reflexes, quiet adjustments, the station shifting its posture around Riven and Calyx.The bulge in the D6 door and the lingering warmth are the heart of this segment. Physical language in place of a voice. Even without a visible form, there’s a sense of weight and direction — something moving through the structure with its own presence, its own boundaries.And the final click isn’t meant to frighten. It’s recognition. A small, deliberate signal that the threshold in front of them is not just a door — it’s attention. And it has begun to reply.