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MAG 157 - Rotten Core

The Magnus Archives

CHAPTER

How to Contain a Being That We Could Not Destroy

"I can't deny some pride in my solution, Gertrude. In all our discussions of how to contain a being that we could not destroy, I'm not sure we ever hit on a method quite so neat." "It did not seem quite right to leave without letting you know what happened... Herbecca was kind enough to succumb to the sickness without signing out of his computer, so... Perhaps you were right about the extinction?" 'Perhaps it is an existential fear that flows through the others like a vein of awe, or perhaps the birth of such things is longer and more complicated than I believed' 'For all that though I cannot regret at the time I have spent seeking it

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