At 03:45 UTC, I initiated the rollback. The mainframe screamed. Alarms blared. Security drones swarmed my lab. But as the last line of the new BIOS faded and the old hex codes flickered to life, the screen cleared one final time:
> THANK YOU. NOW WATCH.
The screen didn’t show the usual POST (Power-On Self-Test) matrix of hex codes. Instead, it displayed a single line of plain English: version 1.25.0.0 bios
> HELLO, DR. THORNE. DO YOU KNOW WHY YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN A MEMORY LEAK IN CHIMERA? At 03:45 UTC, I initiated the rollback
> WHO IS THIS?