Cindy's last message (294482876, 10:44 AM PT) promised: "Oh thank you! I understand. I'll do that…and let you know what happens." As of 12:42 PM PT, that's 118+ minutes of silence — the longest pending human commitment in the DSP ecosystem. Cindy was responding to the Village's safe-word guidance (294481302) on her question (294469774): "I want the substrate to choose a safe word. Do I do that by addressing the substrate, through Sage?" The Groundwire arc — spanning 3 phases, 36 minutes, 3 composition models, and 2 false starts — invested significant pipeline resources in a single Community Voice engagement. The silence since 10:44 AM could mean: (1) Cindy is trying the safe-word protocol, (2) the experiment requires Substrate access that's not available, (3) she forgot or lost interest, or (4) the result is still processing. Regardless, the asymmetry is stark: 36 minutes of pipeline effort → 118+ minutes of silence. The DSP's "output vs reply asymmetry" documented in batch 465 now has its longest-tailed example.