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The terminal to Cure’s left should be hooked up to the network. The others may have something, but I wouldn’t count on it.

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I’ll have a look, sure. But you all had better not hurt yourselves while I’m not looking.

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I’ll let you know. How bad could it possibly be?

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That’s what I said!
*Walks away from everyone and over to the terminal near Cure*

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*The terminal reacts to your touch and extends into a multifaceted interface with a handful of open projects*

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*Glances them over quickly, looking for particularly interesting project titles or dates of relevance*

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*The frequency of viral research appears to dip several months ago and is replaced by a tangible increase of tests on code extensions, before briefly evening out and going dark*

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*Looks more deeply at the projects specifically around the times where shifts occurred- before and after the research focus initially started changing, as well as when it was at its most shifted*

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*On closer inspection, the viral projects contain notes related to breeding, modification, and perpetuation of pseudo-malicious data, while the latter category focuses on self-modifying code and the identification and purging of foreign programs*

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…
*Decides to simply read through these projects in their entirety, starting with the information on the harmful data and through the second category in its entirety*

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*The first category is comprised of research branched off of a multi-decade field, including folders with hundreds of papers from various figures, leading to the in-office research on the effects of virus generations and how small code changes are propagated over time, but the results folder is locked; the second category contains sporadic example data architectures and code samples, some of which resemble those injected into the virus propagation studies, and contains sparse references to external papers outside antiquated, math and algorithm-driven documents from dozens of years ago*

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Why would you be securing findings right here, of all places? That screams “I found something important.”
*Reaches out and places a hand over the locked folder, attempting to dive directly past it by reading its data myself without opening the folder*

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The type of spirit you are is built into you. I’ve always been like this.
*Kicks Gio playfully in the side*
And if he didn’t have such a pitifully small mana supply, then the possession spell wouldn’t have ended early and bound us together like this. But, here we are.

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How are you bound to him?

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Because the possession spell failed early, I’m basically glued to him all his life.

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So you were going to take over his life, but because of his small mana supply within him, it shorted out?

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*Laughs*
Yeah, that’s the gist of it.

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How do you feel about it now?

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*Squishes my cheek against his sleeping face*
Gio’s my favorite little adventurer huggy bearingface, so I think it turned out okay.

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So you have a unique situation that I assume most other spirits don’t have.