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“—this is Dr. Ren Ibarra of UPD field station. If anyone finds this, we’ve had an incident. Core breach. Evac… We’re sending critical data to the buoys. If you’re near—please—retrieve. Tell them—” The feed snapped.

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Ibarra shook her head. “If we cut it blind, its feedback might lash out. It knows the lattice now. Sudden silence could be interpreted as attack.” “—this is Dr

Mira pressed for details. Ibarra described fields coiling like strings inside rock, then forming a sequence reminiscent of biosignature frequencies—patterns similar to heartbeat intervals, to migratory pulses recorded from entities no human had cataloged. eaglecraft 12110 upd