DISPATCH DIALOGUES

Transmission from Within the Cycle

DISPATCH 09 — Quenndrel

He Knows Where the Weave Holds — and Where It Doesn’t

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Q1: Your title in the Loom?

Titles are for ceremony.

My function is to ensure the Loom continues to do what it was designed to do, without interruption, degradation, or amateur interference.

If you insist upon comparison, Nephrys oversees the whole edifice. I ensure its foundation is not quietly dissolving beneath her feet.

Q2: What does that actually require of you?

Everything.

I examine the flows no one else notices.
The eddies behind primary Threads, the backwaters where Patterns knot themselves into nonsense.

I trace a fault to its source before the Weave realizes it has one.

My hands are in the machinery. I am aware that this is beneath the dignity of some.
That is why I am competent, and others are… less so.

Q3: You and Glimlock seem to disagree often.

Glimlock does not disagree so much as distract.

He treats Pattern like a stage, waiting for applause no one has promised him.

The Loom requires precision, not quips.

I will admit his occasional observations are not entirely without value.

But if you wish to keep a Weave, you do not leave its care to someone who measures success in punchlines.

Q4: What’s the most important truth about the Loom?

That it is never flawless.

Even in its strongest Cycles, it carries imperfections.

These are not weaknesses. They are the breathing spaces that keep rigidity from becoming fracture.

My work is to keep those spaces from becoming holes large enough for the Forge, or worse, to crawl through.