The Wound
The floor
also: the free-energy floor · the entropy baseline
The observable signature of the Wound — a baseline that reads above spec and keeps climbing.
In full
The Wound's fingerprint in the instruments: a free-energy / entropy floor that runs above engineering specification and rises measurably with every fold and every transmission. Crews log it 'within tolerance' and file it as noise. The careful reader watches it accumulate across books the characters cannot yet name.
Key facts
- The Wound's fingerprint in the instruments.
- Reads above engineering spec; rises with every fold and transmission.
- Logged 'within tolerance' and filed as noise.
- Drift-era example: a persistent ~0.03% entropy offset on the harmonic stack.