The pattern documentation for the expressive cycle had been building for six weeks.
Dael had been quiet about it — which meant either the pattern was still forming or the pattern was significant enough to warrant certainty before presentation.
He found out which on a Thursday morning.
Dael came to the kitchen table.
Not the archive. Not the oversight board annex. The kitchen table, which was where Dael brought things that required the specific quality of the kitchen's honest work running through it.
He poured tea.
Dael sat.
"The expressive cycle pattern," Dael said. "I've been building the documentation for six weeks. I want to show you what it shows."
"Show me," he said.
Dael spread the documentation.
Not as dramatic as the full-sequence pattern from months ago. Quieter. The specific quality of something that had been accumulating carefully and was now ready to be seen.
