Everything’s been cycling for weeks, ever since the computer started back up. There was a system crash, followed by a hard reboot. Everybody was asleep, so it tried to auto-restore, but a chunk of the hard drive was missing.

Computers don’t store everything in alphabetical order. There are little pieces here, chunks there, maybe a string or two of data over by that diode. There are certain files whose only job is to know where other bits of information are. A good portion of those files were apparently on the 18th level, bordering the outer walls. Hulls. They’re called hulls, or …

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