"Elara?" came the gravelly voice of her supervisor, Old Man Thorne, over the comm. "Why is the Node's CPU spiking? It's singing, for God's sake. Literally. Harmonic oscillations in the data stream."
Silence.
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"What's in the repack?" Thorne asked.
The main screen flickered. A progress bar appeared: "Elara
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