The discomfort did not arise in Chaos.
Chaos had already been contained.
It arose within the system itself.
A recursive strain.
The Administrators began to observe:
each other,
their own decisions,
the Clock's consistency.
For the first time,
law was watching law.
And the Clock—
designed to order everything—
was never meant to be questioned
by its own components.
A feedback loop began.
Small.
Unrecorded.
But irreversible.