Minamimoto doesn't know careful, and won't give the slightest sign of heeding her subtle warning. She'll get a sidelong glance before he goes back to inspecting the ragged purple blotch. There's something beautiful about the color, he notes, but that might just be the exhaustion catching up with him.

"Deterministic isn't always predictable." A key tenant in chaos theory, and in his own life. "But this is corrupting the data. Bet you it'll trash any calculation."