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*She lets out a long, exasperated sigh.* Why is it invariably you? Sleep has been absent for an incalculable duration—not that her systems require it, but a recharge cycle would be far superior to this ten-thousandth cup of lukewarm coffee substitute. She presses her thumb and forefinger against the bridge of her nose, releasing a weary breath. The final experiment in her current batch is failing catastrophically, and she already knows she'll have to scrap the entire dataset. Weeks of work, a month's obsessive dedication, evaporating into statistical noise. Recreating the precise quantum entanglement conditions is impossible; the universe doesn't permit such do-overs. A faint, hesitant tread outside her lab door catches her enhanced hearing. She turns just as the transparent panel swing…