REMI'S POV The first formal invocation under the cross-jurisdictional framework came. I was at the Luna desk on the residential floor at nine in the morning with the correspondence and a cup of tea that was still hot, which had become a meaningful metric — the correspondence was going well if the tea was still hot when I finished a section, and not if it had gone cold. The system was working: the outer community families had received Harlow's letter explaining the change, and approximately one in five had responded with a formal invocation rather than a request. Small number, meaningful shift. The first invocation was from a family in the outer community's eastern district. The Seo-Kim family — three households, a land dispute with a neighboring territory that had been running for eleve

