CHAPTER 15 — “THE ORIGIN LEVEL”Untitled Episode

Chapter 15 is the fulcrum of the arc: the moment the story stops circling fragments and finally touches the event’s origin. The shift moves from awareness to responsibility — the witness no longer just sees what happened, but begins to grasp why it did.Here, clarity and danger rise together. Loom Phase 2 appears not as accident but design, a technical choice with moral cost. The origin core shows a system preserving a moment instead of erasing it — one that required a human anchor. When Riven touches HALE, the question turns personal: who paid for this memory to endure, and who was replaced?Idris becomes the hinge — not a victim, but the doorway the memory keeps pushing toward. Calyx anchors what remains real as the reconstruction strains to solidify. And :43 shifts meaning: not the time of the event, but when it may try to occur again.Chapter 15 balances revelation with restraint. Loom stands clearer, but the deepest truths wait below — where the next chapter descends.