Juq250 [updated] -

Target thresholds (first iteration):

Juq kept a vigil like a low, steady light. They learned the plant's rhythms: it slept under stars that themselves had been freed from distant orbits, it drank in frequencies carried on the wind, and it obeyed no ledger. Juq began to feel less like a number and more like a node in something larger: a circuit with unexpected flows. The hull of the ship thrummed when Juq slept near it now, but the hum tasted like possibility instead of obligation. juq250