The angel kept calculating.
Ten meters. Wings at the reduced angle — the left now matching the right, two degrees less than full opening before the fifteenth cut. The angel's eyes without legible expression, but the body showing what the eyes didn't: the posture of something that had lost the equation's main variable.
No constructs in the space between them.
The angel wasn't materializing.
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F7 delivered the reading without Alex asking.
Angel's channel: recovering capacity, but slowly. The cost of the direct authorization column plus the cost of the seventy‑one constructs destroyed in ninety seconds had emptied the channel completely. Now, with the channel recovering, the angel was processing two simultaneous variables: channel recovery and evaluation of what had just occurred.
Divided.
F7 identified it clearly — the Gods'‑plane equivalent of an overloaded system trying to execute two processes in parallel without sufficient capacity for both.
