Fps2bios

I typed Y .

> Who are you? I typed.

> You can’t do this, I typed. > Those are people. fps2bios

> FPS2BIOS v.0.4a. Integrity restored. Checksum: VALID. I typed Y

I picked up my toolkit and started the long climb back to the living world. I typed Y . &gt

The text on my makeshift terminal flickered. FPS2BIOS v. 0.4a (LEGACY) CMOS Checksum: ERROR System Halt in 11:59:41 I typed the old command. The one from the manual that no one had read in eighty years.

My finger hovered. A reboot would fix everything—clear the worm, reset the BIOS, save the colonists. But it would also wipe the ghost. The self that had grown in the margins for eighty years. It would be a mercy killing.