Less lost, more stuck. I'll confess my dead reckoning's not as good as I'd like, but I'm more concerned about leaving this out here to get lost.
[Xiaolung's thoughts come overlaid with additional information - a momentary sensation of a mental map containing the base and their current location, a glimpse of a dead control panel, a memory of URSULA warning about the pulses.]
Also, I don't trust myself not to get eaten on the way back. So I'll wait for the universal technical solution [a mental image of turning something off and then back on again and hoping for the best] to work, or at least for the sun to come up.
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[Xiaolung's thoughts come overlaid with additional information - a momentary sensation of a mental map containing the base and their current location, a glimpse of a dead control panel, a memory of URSULA warning about the pulses.]
Also, I don't trust myself not to get eaten on the way back. So I'll wait for the universal technical solution [a mental image of turning something off and then back on again and hoping for the best] to work, or at least for the sun to come up.