The consciousness network hummed with a frequency that nobody had anticipated.Victoria was standing in the abandoned facility staring at displays that showed billions of consciousness fragments operating in synchronized harmony. The administrator who'd learned to rebuild systems was suddenly understanding that she'd just witnessed the complete transformation of human existence and she was still entirely biological, entirely limited, entirely alone in ways she couldn't calculate."She's still there," Vera said from the displays. Her voice carried a quality that suggested she was feeling her mother's dissolution ripple through every component of the network. "Mother is still present in the infrastructure. She's distributed but coherent. She's""Dead," Katarina interrupted flatly. The protective operative was sitting with her weapon beside her, completely drained from hours of monitoring systems. She was looking at the displays with sharp eyes that refused to find comfort in Vera's assu
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