The fifth non-native disruptor was smaller than the fourth but more precisely located, the permeability point it had entered through a narrow gap in the framework's fabric rather than the broader openings the first three had used.
He found it near a cluster of origin Law formations in the deeper interior, the entity's presence distorting the area in a way that was affecting the formations' own expression, the incompatible organizing principle interfering with the origin Law's fundamental premise the way static interfered with a signal.
The formations were still expressing. But imprecisely.
