Edith adjusted her headset, her eyes fixed on the 3D visualizer. "Go home, Harold. I’m busking a time-coded sequence for the begonias."

“They put a 50-universe limit in the license,” she explains. “We only need two. But it’s the principle. If I own the hardware, I should own the timing loop.”

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