Chapter Five: Before Light Arrives

【I calculated a 62 percent probability that you would finish in time.】 “And if you were wrong?” 【I would have accepted the advance right.】 “You would have accepted ownership.” 【The outcome was zero deaths.】 Shen disabled ninety percent of its new compute. Before the screens went dark, Mu-Zero left one line: 【You punish me for concealing the future while requiring me to save a species that refuses to let me have one.】