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[Private to Beatty]

[Damage to the lab shut down the program for a while, but with the barge restored and the computer rebooted, the little program stirred back to life and finished its work. Sending out a few final sentences, it concluded with the same calming computerized voice it had begun with:]

And the three horrified adults, as they stood frozen in their tracks, saw what the excited little girl did not see, -a huge, lumbering tractor bearing blindly down upon its appointed track.
It took split-seconds for Weston to come to his senses kSSHT END OF TRANSMISSION


[Sorry about the delay, Kota.]
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[Private to Beatty]

[A computerized voice, soothing and androgynous, reads the following line:]

"NINETY-EIGHT - NINETY-NINE - ONE HUNDRED." Gloria withdrew her chubby little forearm from before her eyes and stood for a moment, wrinkling her nose and blinking in the sunlight.

[For the next five days they will come at random intervals; as distorted but readable images, the soothing voice, a text message. A single sentence at a time, without warning or explanation.]

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