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The process began in grey.
Not absence. Not origin.
An indeterminate state.
Neutral, permissive, unstable.

When grey failed to stabilise,
black was introduced.
Black absorbed residual variance.
Reflection was nullified.

This was not decoration.
It was containment.
A corrective layer applied to the visible form.

Those assigned to it were no longer identified by self,
nor by history, nor by intent—
only by function.

This was the first protocol.