"Shut it down!" Sarah yelled, but the toggle switch wouldn't budge. The room began to hum, a deep vibration that shook their marrow.

Elias leaned in, his glasses slipping down his nose. The graph on the screen wasn't a jagged line of unpredictability. It was a perfect, looping spiral. A strange attractor. But it was growing.

Elias looked at the blank monitors and smiled weakly. "You can’t cage the woolly bits, Sarah. The moment you think you’ve mapped the wild, it finds a new way to bite." AI responses may include mistakes. Learn more