Before the bridge, there was a mistake that refused to stay singular. The universe had always tolerated curiosity. It even rewarded it, in small, survivable ways-equations that closed cleanly, experiments that failed politely, paradoxes that collapsed into footnotes. What it did not tolerate, not for long, was certainty applied without restraint. Ayriana felt the shift before any instrument registered it. It arrived as a thinning-an absence of resistance where resistance had always lived. The Quantum Leap Drive hummed in its dormant state, QLD-M lattices aligned and obedient, but the background noise of reality had changed. The quantum foam no longer seethed uniformly. It listened. "Do you feel that?" Vale asked, not looking up from the projection.
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