Over the following week, Rowan and the LinkRunner became an odd sort of pair. When colleagues were gone, Rowan would slip the tester into a rack and ask it questions: Why does this noise occur? Where do these packets stall? The LinkRunner replied in bursts of diagrams and spectral readouts, and once in a while—a sentence that felt almost like advice.
Over the following week, Rowan and the LinkRunner became an odd sort of pair. When colleagues were gone, Rowan would slip the tester into a rack and ask it questions: Why does this noise occur? Where do these packets stall? The LinkRunner replied in bursts of diagrams and spectral readouts, and once in a while—a sentence that felt almost like advice.