An unknown amount of time passed as Liam continued his silent journey through the deep void, his focus entirely locked on tracing the cosmic pathways from one solar system wide entropy law gear to another.
To his perception, the universe was an immense circuit board of interlocking gears, and he was a spark moving along the lines of light, completely unbothered by anything else.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, the world did not stop spinning. Weeks turned smoothly into months without his knowledge, and the pace of human life began to accelerate rapidly under the steady execution of Lucy and the automated frameworks of Nova Technologies.
At the Lunar Base Sanctuary on the far side of the moon, a quiet but monumental shift was taking place. The four-month clinical trial of the medical nanites had officially concluded.
