Send help. Or don’t. I’m not sure which side we’re on anymore.

— Aris

I think it’s a seed. And after a thousand years, it just decided it was time to germinate.

For six months, the BTWF team has been quietly documenting it. The central chamber is the size of a cathedral. In its center is a device. It looks like a bronze orrery, but the planets aren’t celestial bodies. They’re shapes. Fractal, non-Euclidean shapes that your eye refuses to track. When we powered it on last week (don’t ask how), the shapes began to move .