M-tech Controller Driver Here

// A driver is not a tool. It is a promise. If you want it to let go, you have to say goodbye properly.

// If no master handshake for 30 seconds, assume network collapse. Execute survival protocol: maintain last known safe setpoint. M-tech Controller Driver

There it was. Hidden in the idle-loop logic, a comment she’d never noticed: // A driver is not a tool

M-TECH CORE DRIVER v. 4.8.3 – UNKNOWN STATE. PROCESSES DETACHED. right below Fujimoto’s:

Arcadia let out a shaky laugh. “You talked it down.”

Later, she would write the post-mortem. But first, she opened the driver’s source again and added her own comment, right below Fujimoto’s: