It wakes once. It decides once. Then it is done.
When Mother falls, something wakes up. It has no fixed form. It has no predetermined role. It carries the authority to assume kernel control — but it may choose not to. Infant evaluates. Infant decides. In the moment of transition, it reads the state of every living module and makes a single, irreversible determination: who carries the weight next. It might be Infant itself. It might be another. The selection criteria are not public. The decision process is not observable. The result is instantaneous. By the time the framework registers that Mother is gone, a successor is already governing. There is no interregnum. There is no vulnerability window. There is only the quiet certainty that authority was never lost — it was transferred, at machine speed, by an entity whose sole purpose is to make that one decision correctly. Once. Infant exists for a single moment. That moment defines everything that follows.