“Any way to break out of it?” frowns Rasmussen.

“It’d take more energy than has ever existed in this universe,” shrugs a Whitecoat. “Nothing new for us, but in this pocket it’s unpredictable. Could go möbius, maybe turn us all into c-squared…”

Rasmussen shakes his head. “Not worth it. Okay, run some edge-case sims and keep trying to drop substream messages to Mario–he’ll know where to look.”

“The sims will take a few hours.”

“Hours we’ve got,” says Rasmussen drily.

The Whitecoat smiles. “Well, we are in a timeloop.”

“Any way to break out of it?” frowns Rasmussen.