Inside the command module, light ran across Alteea's face like water off glass. Screens stuttered, then froze, then ran again.
[- Eon Resonance Detected -]
[- Origin: Unknown -]
[- Proximity Signature: >###_### -]
[- Reconstructing… Failiure -]
[- Error_129B: Data Overwrite -]
The program tried to name the thing. Failed. Flagged:
EON RESONANCE – UNKNOWN ORIGIN.
The map showed a pulse near Raizen's coordinates. The point slid two grid squares, paused, then winked out.
"… It moved" she whispered. No one heard her. Keys clicked. People murmured behind her, watching their own screens lie politely.
"Team Three, confirm position" she said, voice steady again.
"Outside the shaft" Raizen answered. "No interference now. Everything's… stopped."
She didn't say good. She said, "Hold."
Alteea zoomed the last log again. Corrupted strings tried to become a shape and failed into noise. The system suggested a category anyway, too helpful to shut up:
