Mara's fingers lingered over the tactile keys. The panel was older than the campus—its labels engraved in a serif font smoothed by years of touch. Beneath the surface, a mosaic of status lights pulsed in patterns that almost read like Morse: green for idle, amber for attention, a slow blue heartbeat when the array warmed. There was a rotary dial at the center, notched and reassuring, and a lensfinder that looked like it belonged to an old film camera.
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