Oversight didn't panic.
They couldn't.
Panic was a visible emotion, and visible emotion from an institution was confession.
So they did what systems always did when a control loop failed:
They reclassified the failure as an intentional test.
The Integrity Alignment Drill ended without violence, without collapse, without the clean "example" they wanted—and that was the problem. Not because students had resisted authority.
Because they had redefined it.
Consensus.
Five seconds.
Shared decision-making.
Lateral authority.
The drill had proven something Oversight could not afford to let spread:
When people stop treating the system as the only source of permission, the system becomes one option instead of a law.
Options killed institutions.
By the next morning, the Triangle opened like nothing had happened.
Same bells.
Same corridors.
Same polished institutional blue glowing along the walls.
But students didn't move the same.
They didn't look the same.
