Shard didn’t defrag. It did the opposite. It amplified fragmentation, but with a twist: it welded the shards into a kaleidoscope. A single, coherent mosaic of broken things.
"Proceed."
He pressed the key to his temple. The lace interface hummed. defrag 264
One enforcer whispered to the other: "What do we do with him?" Shard didn’t defrag
The other shook her head. "We can’t defrag infinity." each one a star.
His fragment count flickered:
The last thing he felt was the number dissolving. Not going down to zero. Shattering into a million pieces, each one a star.