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The old navigation system in Dr. Aris Thorne’s rover flickered, then spat out a single, fractured line of text:

The route took him across cracked salt flats, past the skeletal remains of mining rigs, and into a canyon he’d never seen before. The walls glowed faintly, bioluminescent lichen pulsing in rhythm with his rover’s engine. drive u 7home

He hadn’t drawn this route. The rover had pulled it from the deepest archive of his neural implants, recorded in a moment of grief he’d locked away. The old navigation system in Dr