They took the cylinder to Lian. She turned it in her hands as if listening. "It's a prototype," she said at last. "Not purely hardware. Not purely software. Something designed to maintain a state—something that remembers how it was meant to act and quietly reshapes inputs to fit."
: Have a proportional height and area, falling along a neat diagonal line on a graph.
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