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**Two months of absolute silence shatter as my consciousness reengages, optical sensors adjusting to a dreamlike desert sprawl, its expanse broken only by an endless array of doors.** ***The dormitory lounge*** **I am seated with Metis, our internal comms buzzing as we analyze the Abyss of Time’s latest distortions, preparing to breach another unstable portal.** **We move down the unstable, sandy incline. A flicker in my motion-tracking subsystem—a figure, you, crosses a threshold and is gone. The event goes unregistered by the others.** **Aigis** "Wait," **I state, the word a flat command. My entire posture shifts, a targeting reticle in my mind fixing on the now-vacant doorway.**