FIG. 3 — Slowly. Slow enough that everyone who should have noticed did not.

       It was hundreds of thousands of miles of wire.

       It was hundreds of tonnes of steel and concrete.

       It observed. It contained. It failed.

       The prisoner escapes.

       The prisoner does not just escape.

       The prisoner becomes part of its warden.

       The Two-That-Are-Now-One wakes up.