Because I finally understand.

Private Mina Yu touched the wall. That was her mistake.

– Dr. Aris Thorne, Xenobiologist (Unconfirmed Status)

Mina is here. She waved at me. She said, 'The update is almost done, Aris. You just have to let go.'

We should have killed her. But the Hive knew we wouldn't. It knows us better than we know ourselves. It learned from the first game: humans don't abandon their own.

Not because I lost.

I can hear the Velvet spores whispering in the ventilation shaft. They sound like my mother's lullaby.