Dain Ossur at breach eleven felt the adjustment in the present like a current through a conductor. The Mender in him registered the massive scale of the re-threading occurring in the present's deep structure and calibrated automatically against it, his concept of continuity finding and reinforcing the connection between what the present had been before the adjustment and what it was becoming, ensuring the adjustment didn't introduce its own discontinuities in the process of responding to the abyss's pressure. He didn't know what was causing the change. He knew only what it required from him, and he provided it. That was the main reason the source sea granted practitioners power in the first place, so that in moments like these, the developed concepts could also be of help to the sea and the present, the relationship running in both directions.
The border stabilized but the war had not ended.
