Chapter 298: New Category
The Director had not slept much.
This was visible in the lamps. Two burning instead of one when Kai came past his office door in the early morning, a third notebook open on the side table. He was writing when Kai passed and did not look up.
"Come in if you have ten minutes," he said.
Kai came in.
The Gene Energy Output definition had grown overnight. What had been a heading and a partial page the evening before was now four full pages. The Director had organized them the way he organized all his measurement frameworks: definition first, observable parameters second, instrument requirements third, calibration method last.
Across the top of the final page, underlined twice: Gene energy is biological energy — the living output of organisms in contact with the gene distribution network, carrying the network's genetic material in their bodies.
Kai read it once.
"That's the definition," he said.
