The queue ran empty at 1043.
It happened sometimes — a gap between automated routing cycles, four or five minutes of administrative silence while the system batched the next distribution. Kael had learned not to treat it as a pause. He used the time for procedural maintenance: citation format review, classification chart verification, the small housekeeping tasks that kept his log notation rate from drifting.
He opened the Codex.
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