The silence that filled the room sys-side was profound. It was so pure that I suspected that everyone within the room had suddenly set up cones of silence above themselves, and I had to check to make sure that I hadn’t done just that.
“Wait, wait, wait. No, that can’t be it,” Debarre said. The growl was gone from his voice. He looked panicked, rather than angry. “That’s 2.3 trillion instances at best guess, right? Trillion, with a ‘T’, right? Everyone keeps saying that.”
Günay nodded. “2.301 trillion instances crashed. 100% of the System was affected.”
-There was no silence at this. The room burst into scattered conversations. Dry Grass nodded to In An Answer, who waved a hand toward the AVEC stage, which was suddenly overlaid with a muted microphone symbol.
+There was no silence at this. The room burst into scattered conversations. Dry Grass nodded to Need An Answer, who waved a hand toward the AVEC stage, which was suddenly overlaid with a muted microphone symbol.
“We all crashed?” Sedge asked an instance of Dry Grass who remained at the table. “All of us?”
Dry Grass frowned down at the table in silent thought. “We only have their word to go on, but yes, I suppose so,” she said after a moment.
“But nothing happened,” I said. “It was just…midnight and then Marsh wasn’t there.”
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