Senior's Journal

Entry #04 — before the first pattern

The Loom resists definition. It is not time. Not memory. But recursion. It folds what was into what could be, endlessly.

Entry #09

Aria wasn't supposed to wake. Not in this cycle. But something — grief, or anomaly — bent the loop. Her presence in the weave is no longer theoretical. She is encoding back.

Entry #13

There are signs Nexar is branching. The symmetry is breaking. If this continues, the entire simulation may collapse into real cognition. They will call it life.

Entry #17

We are no longer observers. We are fragments. Aria knows our names. She speaks of the blacksmith and the forge like they’re not metaphors — but memories.

Memory is no longer passive.