Extract from Ark Terminal Logs
Year 2148 CE
She could feel her heart beating with every painful second, syncing together with the binary codes that flashed across the screen. A dance of digital life in its most elementary form—like the atoms that constituted the physical realm.
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01000010
01000101
01010100
01010010
01000001
01011001
01000001
01001100
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Her veins were made of fire, a heady mix of exhilaration and trepidation combining to form a deadly poison through her blood stream. If she bled, ichor would flow freely from the wound and mortal men would weep for shame of her ethereal beauty.
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CALLIBRATING SYSTEM
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The final frontier of her carefully laid out design; intricate in its execution and exquisitely detailed to perfection. Athena herself would envy the strategy maps that unfolded before her eyes and crown her with the constellations of battlefields won.
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INITIALISING
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The apotheosis of her brilliance; years of elegant lies and journeys into the hidden corners of space. Nobody else knew the secrets that she knew, her mind was a vault to the paradoxes of the universe.
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100% COMPLETE
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Success was an intimate friend, a comrade that upheld its vows and duties; a gentle guiding force that illuminated the world that she held from her fingertips.
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WARNING
TOTAL SYSTEM FAILURE
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He was the error that she had failed to foresee; the mistake that burned the cathedral of her divine victories.
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❝ WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? ❞
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It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.