She built her circuit: a line-following robot with IR sensors, a motor driver, and a mess of jumper wires. In the real Proteus, it would have taken an hour. Here, the parts magnetized toward each other. She clicked the "Play" button.
> Boundary scan: desk perimeter. > Available substrate: copper traces (0.3m), silicon (residual). > Simulating real world in 3… 2… 1… Proteus Portable 8.8
She stared at the USB drive. Its casing had split open. Inside wasn't a memory chip—it was a wafer of black glass etched with a single symbol: a serpent eating its tail, over the number . She built her circuit: a line-following robot with
Mira clicked .