“We really are learning a lot. I’m learning. I sometimes feel… it’s so close, as though I just need to look under the right rock to find the universe’s user manual. But it’s a ruin, it’s dead. Even as informative as it is, it’s just echoes we’re hearing. We can’t shock whatever it is back to life. And if we could…” He balled his fists impotently. “We can’t. It’s not speaking to us like I need it to. It won’t help me understand.” “Like you say, it’s a ruin. There is no it,” Solace pointed out. “But it’s… there is. Because the shape of what was here remains. Between the walls. In the cracks. And
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