Marcus has been standing for fifteen days straight, until he finally lies down and sees the hole in the Engine Room spiral a puncture he's walked over a hundred times, that matches something he's been secretly carrying from drawer 13. When his hidden object emerges, it forces a reckoning: has the Analyst been protecting the group or controlling what they can know? Day 16 is when the most meticulous mind in The Core confronts the limits of precision.

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