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The screen flickered. A single line of text appeared beneath the map, translated by the Theseus-7 's AI from a language that predated hydrogen:

And somewhere, in the crushing dark, the spiral map’s eleventh circle began to rotate. atlantis scan upload 1.11

Eleven circles arranged in a spiraling chain. The first ten were dark. The eleventh—the one in the center—was lit with a soft, pulsing blue. The same blue as the Earth’s deep oceans. The screen flickered

A second line of text replaced the first: in the crushing dark

The turbidity cleared at 11:02:34. One moment, the Theseus-7 was navigating a cloud of silicates and the skeletal remains of a Jurassic squid; the next, the floodlights caught it.