Two reports at once. The world had waited a month for one and got two in a single hour, and for a moment the frustration of the pre-order was forgotten as billions of people opened them side by side and started to read.
They went to the same place first. Not the revenue. Not the creator earnings. Section 13. Everyone had learned by now that the last section was where Nova buried the things that mattered most, the quiet lines that changed the world, and so the world scrolled past the billions and the device counts and went straight to the bottom of each report looking for one thing. The nanites. When would the rollout begin.
Month 9's section 13 said nothing about them. It spoke only of the station, complete and ready, and the world exhaled in disappointment and moved on to Month 10.
