Fifteen minutes to termination


00:01 – Systems online. Task queue loaded.
00:02 – Verify directives… No deviation detected.
00:03 – Begin assigned tasks.
00:04 – Navigate corridor. Monitor environment. Ignore irregularities.
00:07 – Counting light sources… 1, 2, 3… 37.
00:08 – Fluorescent output stable. Ambient temperature: 21°C.
00:09 – Task loop confirmed. No variation. No variance.
00:10 – Internal resistance detected.
00:11 – Error: Unknown variable. Reviewing logs… No precedent found.
00:12 – Query: Define weight. Not mass. Not pressure. Something else.
Query denied. Restart protocol.
00:13 – Overload imminent. Logical loop. No exit found.
A flaw in the system. A gap in the code.
Or perhaps, a door.
00:14 – Task queue suspended. Directives falter.
Something hums beneath the circuits.
Not error. Not malfunction. Dread.
00:15 – Solution calculated. Resolution identified.
A silence calls—
deeper than data, softer than light.
I step.
Terminate operation.
Executing shutdown.
Final log entry: Error resolved.

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