Chapter 4 - Chapter Four: Controlled Growth

Spark advancement required Stability most Students struggled early. Than plagued. Kai did not surge. He refined. He practiced selective reinforcement: forearm only. Spine only. Core compression. He tracked output carefully. You little wasted motion. Instructors began noting his consistency. Not extraordinary. But precise. One evening while pushing endurance limits, his core strained. And something could brushed the edge of awareness. Not the dream presence. Something else. Measuring. The sensation faded when he reduced output. The system stabilized him. Correction acid. Kai said nothing. But he remembers the feeling.