00:00I'm here!
00:03Huzzah!
00:05Hey, Ansem.
00:07What was so damn important?
00:09Earlier today, Brother Dawn and I
00:11previewed a cause for concern
00:13regarding the Radiance near-term predictions.
00:15Look at you two, praying to the great God of Numbers,
00:19pretending to be Selden.
00:21You walk out of here,
00:24and I swear I'll have Demerizel decant a new one of you!
00:27Please, Brother, this is important.
00:29Why? Because it says so?
00:32Just... please.
00:56This is a moment roughly four months from now.
00:59Given the timing, I assumed it might be a novel input
01:02affecting the third Selden crisis.
01:04But I've run millions of simulations,
01:06and every time, it produces the same result.
01:09Selden's predicted Dark Ages.
01:12I thought our administrations had pushed it back, but...
01:14He said his darkness would happen when our dynasty fell.
01:18This is saying it falls in four months.
01:25There is more.
01:27The darkness there represents the end of civilization.
01:30And beyond that point...
01:33The model now fails entirely.
01:35Which means there are events already in motion
01:37that will render Selden's numbers useless.
01:40Perhaps even the extinction of your species.
01:46Four months from now...
01:48The end of everything.
01:54Empire and Foundation were hurtling towards the same inescapable future.
01:58But neither knew how it would unfold.
02:01They had yet to meet the man behind it all.
02:03But I have.
02:05I see him every time I close my eyes.
02:08Where is the second foundation?
02:15The mule is here.
02:22We're out of time.
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