The change did not announce itself with force, It arrived like breath held too long in a closed room, subtle at first, almost dismissible, until the body realized it had already begun to struggle.
The air around them thickened, not visibly and not in any way the eye could confidently confirm, but the senses, those quieter, older instincts beneath thought registered it immediately. Something in the environment had stopped behaving like passive space and had begun behaving like something aware.
Darian felt it in the way his next breath did not complete itself cleanly.
He frowned slightly. "Do you feel that?"
Adanna did not answer at once, her attention was elsewhere, fixed on the subtle imbalance she could no longer attribute to perception alone. The system's pulses were gone now. No distortions, no projections, no intrusive visions.
That absence was what unsettled her most.
"Yes," she said finally. "It's not showing us anything anymore."
