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Abnormal , the AI replied. Its voice was calm, too calm. Interference patterns suggest a non-natural source. Depth: approximately ten kilometers.

It was a skeleton. Humanoid, but wrong. Too tall, the limbs too long, the skull elongated into a smooth, featureless dome. Its ribcage was fused into a single plate of bone, and inside that cage, where a heart should be, pulsed a sphere of liquid light—the purest astralidium I’d ever seen. magnus 10

“Oracle,” I said. “Give me a read on local magnetosphere.” Abnormal , the AI replied

And I had swallowed it whole.