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Selene stared at the alien script etched into the crystal. The symbols were unlike any known language, yet they resonated with a familiar pattern: an exponential curve that rose, peaked, and then fell. It was a warning encoded in mathematics, a universal tongue. It began as a stray packet—an errant string
— recalibrated .