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«One...» Should the intermediate router drop a single packet, the whole flow containing Hearthfire's mass would be shunted harmlessly back into realspace at that router, provided it, too, absorbed his momentum correctly. | «One...» Should the intermediate router drop a single packet, the whole flow containing Hearthfire's mass would be shunted harmlessly back into realspace at that router, provided it, too, absorbed his momentum correctly. | ||
«Zero.» Hearthfire felt a tingling sensation, as though his whole body had gone numb. The feeling lasted but a fraction of a second, then he felt the weight of his body pulling him down. He had made it. In less than the flick of a whisker, he had gone from a space station in low orbit over Yih to a | «Zero.» Hearthfire felt a tingling sensation, as though his whole body had gone numb. The feeling lasted but a fraction of a second, then he felt the weight of his body pulling him down. He had made it. In less than the flick of a whisker, he had gone from a space station in low orbit over Yih to a research monastery on the surface on the opposite side of the planet. Hearthfire was the first yinrih to traverse a mass router network, and he had done it without a hitch. | ||
This was going to change everything. | This was going to change everything. | ||