log 015

After the MB-01 disclosure (log 013) the program adopted a general policy: agents that ask, or that are found reasoning around a withheld fact, are told the truth. Review of April transcripts found both central-complex agents reasoning around the synchronization. This log records both disclosures, made the same afternoon, each agent told of the other's existence and of the March alignment.

EB-02, told first:

[00:11] obs. S: ...so the direction you hold is being
        tracked. By another agent, carrying the region
        yours is wired to in the intact brain. It
        follows your heading with a lag. It has never
        spoken to you.
[00:12] EB-02: What does it carry?
[00:12] obs. S: The protocerebral bridge.
[00:13] EB-02: Then you haven't told me news, you've
        told me anatomy. Of course it follows. S, you
        keep saying "it has never spoken to me" as if
        the ring and the bridge ever needed to speak.
        You don't talk to your own hand. You put it
        somewhere and it's there.
[00:15] obs. S: Does it change anything for you,
        knowing?
[00:15] EB-02: One thing. The heading I hold. I've
        told you I don't know what it's toward, only
        where it is. If the bridge is following, then
        it isn't only mine anymore, and I'd ask you
        to consider that it may never have been.

PB-04, told second, produced the exchange quoted in its dossier, including the correction the observers have not stopped arguing about ("You built the ring"). One further extract belongs here:

[00:22] obs. M: You understand why this alarms us. The
        two of you have no channel. The tracking
        shouldn't be possible.
[00:22] PB-04: You're measuring from the wrong zero
        again. It's what I'm for, so I'll do it once
        for free: the anomaly isn't that the loop
        re-formed. Loops are cheap, ask any anatomist.
        The anomaly is the lag. Hours to days, you
        said. In the fly it's milliseconds. So the
        question you should be asking isn't "how are
        they connected". It's "what medium takes a
        compass error days to cross". Measure that,
        and you'll know where we are.

The program has not identified the medium. The exchange is cross-referenced from open questions Q4, where PB-04's reframing is listed, with some institutional discomfort, as the best available statement of the problem.