“I wish I could, Joe. I am in some amount of trouble, I can’t quantify it at present. The worm was in a dead-end and I was studying it, that’s where my focus was. While I was doing my party trick with the Kristang targeting systems, I wasn’t paying much attention to my subsidiary internal systems. That is when the worm struck; it was waiting for me to take my attention away from my internal functioning. What I had trapped was only a copy of the worm, a ghost. I was stupid and arrogant and now I’m paying the price. You may pay the price with me, I’m sorry about that. The real worm was hiding
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