6. Back To The Omniship

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1. Short Description

Mike returns to the omniship exhausted and bewildered, learning from Kallom-4000 that the cascade of lives and months of perceived experience lasted only thirty-seven seconds. Unable to reconcile subjective time with the brief duration of the decohesion event, he succumbs to fatigue and sleeps.

2. Notes

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3. Status

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4. Image

Mike sits exhausted at the ship's controls under a cold starfield, his body slumped after the reality-jump cascade. The image returns the story from impossible lives to the sterile isolation of the omniship, where only seconds have passed.

5. Content

"Thirty-seven seconds, sir," came the reply.

I stared in bewilderment, struggling to process the information through the dense fog of exhaustion. "How...how is that possible? It felt like months."

"I apologize, sir. The perception of time can be unreliable here," Kallom-4000 responded ruefully.

I was too drained to articulate any confusion or disbelief. My thoughts stumbled over one another in a feeble attempt to reconcile the jarring disconnect between how long it seemed versus how long it actually was. With my faculties so wholly sapped, I could hardly wrap my mind around the fact that what felt like endless turmoil only spanned less than a minute.

I slept.