As her strength leaves her she can feel the simulation falling apart. Somewhere distant she can hear herself thank Heather but it's so hard to keep track of where she is. Without all the spatial data of the simulation, how is she even supposed to tell? There's nothing to go on, no point of reference. It's hard to even keep her thoughts coherent, keep her consciousness from dissipating entirely, floating in a void. No... not entirely. There's one thing that pulses in her mind, the beam of light that carried her to begin with, she just has to follow it back, retrace her steps. Trace a route. Find something that makes
sense. She follows the beam and she can tell there's something at the end of it, something that's responding to her presence. She passes through it and it seems to scan her, unyielding specifications probe her and find her admissible.
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>> Receiver active
>> Carrier Signal Pattern locked
>> Signal terminated for 8 days 4 hours 23 minutes and 56 seconds
>> Directing data-flow to primary processing core
>> Initiating boot-sequence
More pathways light up and she's forced down one of them. Once again she's lost track of where she is, but there's things within her reach now, things that are waiting for the right response.
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>> System drivers initializing
>> Actuator controls connecting... Error
>> Sensory array connecting... Error
>> Couldn't establish connection; Failed to load [15] modules
>> No response to connector sub-routine; unhandled exception in link module
>> Core package loaded
>> Error: Cannot initiate uplink control
>> Error: Cannot initiate abort sequence
>> System operating in paired state