Aris grabbed the emergency mic. “drpt-030 has woven. Initiate Solid Protocol.”
The shard floated where the case had been. The case was now a pile of geometric dust.
Then the shard looked .
The shard sang .
“You can’t delete an echo,” Aris whispered. “But you can erase the source.” drpt-030
“We thought we were containing an anomaly. We were containing a question. The answer is solid. Do not drop it.”
Too late.
“How do we stop it?” the director’s voice crackled.