He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe. - Vernor Vinge

The hours came to minutes, the minutes to seconds. And now each second was as long as all the time before.

If during the last thousand seconds you have received any High-Beyond-protocol packets from "Arbitration Arts," discard them at once. If they have been processed, then the processing site and all locally netted sites must be physically destroyed at once. We realize that this means the destruction of solar systems, but consider the alternative. You are under Transcendent attack.

Some dreams take a long time in dying. Some get a last minute reprieve…and that can be even worse.