Three hours — the accumulated force of the investigation approaching its targets. The Creed as guide rather than law is the mature version of the philosophy Basim has been learning — not the prohibition-based reading (nothing is true, therefore nothing is forbidden) but the directional one: the Creed points toward the action that preserves human freedom, and Basim is using it to navigate toward the Order's heart.

The guidance has been tested throughout Mirage — by Roshan's instructions, by the Brotherhood's requirements, by Basim's own impulses. This session is the Creed as compass rather than cage, the philosophy functional rather than theoretical.