The distribution took eleven minutes.

Marina held the broadcast open at the convergence point for eleven minutes while Luna held the source frequency channel and the third system ran its information through both simultaneously. Not through Marina specifically. Through the junction below her palms, into the broadcast infrastructure, into the root network, into the pre-pack channels, outward in every direction that the combined frequency structures reached.

She felt it move through the western territories as it distributed, the specific sensation of the broadcast carrying something larger than its usual frequency, something that had weight and structure and the quality of information that existed below language but above sensation.

She felt...