Rook-7 (Robot)

LOG ENTRY — Rook-7 Location: Marsh Causeway Dryadic Grove, root-plate perimeter Timestamp: 04:41:19 local / [BOUNDARY DRIFT NOTE: single-source timestamp; confirm with Threshold Station on return]

Primary observation:

The Class II signature is gone.

I want to be precise about what "gone" means, because I have four minutes of record either side of the event and the distinction matters for the file. The signature did not weaken, migrate, or attenuate with distance. It ceased to be present at 04:41:07 local, across all seven specimens simultaneously, in a single sampling interval. My arrays are rated to catch a transition of that magnitude across at least three intervals. They caught it in one.

Elvira's severance was clean. I am recording that judgement in my own voice rather than hers, since she will not claim it and someone should.

Secondary observation, and the one I expect to matter more later: the grove's own Etheric extension is unchanged. The trees are still rooted into the Etheric layer. The overlap structure at the root plate is still a continuous single structure. Whatever was hooked into that overlap is no longer hooked into it, and the overlap does not appear to have noticed.

Adjusted measurement: leaf phase-lag across all seven specimens now reads 0.19 seconds. Pre-intervention figure was 0.22 seconds, held consistently across three nights of observation. The new figure has held for eleven minutes.

I do not have an explanation for the 0.03-second shift. I have logged it rather than accounted for it. Both are permitted; only one is honest here.

Regarding the entity: I have no track. I did not expect one — my arrays read anchor coupling, not motion — but I want the absence stated rather than implied, so that no one reading this file later mistakes my silence for a search that came back empty.

Thorne noted the time correctly and did not move the lamp.

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