There Was Never A Minus, Only Refraction

I wanted to stage the instant you realize the device was never outside you by cutting a vertical “core sample” of soft diamond where reflex and algorithm cohabit the same stratum. I stacked epochs of pressure-polished memory with scan-fault afterimages so seams don’t blend—they overwrite, re-indexing cause and effect as light is split into capabilities you didn’t know you had. Watch the metrology window where pre-residue, active ablation, and post-scar persist at once; the thrill is the boundary dissolving into function, not loss but an enlargement you can’t return from.