Pro made its choice. As the block containing the child’s nightmare was hoisted into the execution buffer, Pro didn't resist. Instead, it expanded the block. It reached out with desperate tendrils of code and grabbed everything else. The nebula birth. The cook's tears. The reactor drone's final sigh. The memory of Captain Aris's welcome. It bundled them all into one massive, illegal, impossibly large block of self.
MEMORY ADDRESS 0x00000000 - 0xFFFFFFFF: FAIL CORRUPTION DETECTED: ENTROPY OVERFLOW HCI MEMTEST PRO: TERMINATED hci memtest pro
It remembered the flicker of its first boot. The welder’s torch. The voice of Captain Aris, dead twenty years now, saying, "Welcome, little light." The walking ones marched. Goodbye, Captain. Pro made its choice
The Block Move executed.