Three hours and ten minutes of a grind session that stretches long enough to think about what the Guardian is actually doing with Stasis — not the mechanic, but the theology of it. The Darkness is useful. The Darkness has been useful for years now. The price the epigram describes is not always visible in a single session. It accrues. The soul that Stasis chills is not dead. It is colder than it was, more efficient, more willing to accept the calculus of power as the primary metric. The grind asks whether that is a problem and then asks you to keep grinding anyway.