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You arrive on the desert pad not as a bewildered castaway now, but as a traveller expected by a partially waking system. Dust lifts from the rings before your boots settle, as though the machine is taking notice of your return.

Elsewhere in the desert, features that were once merely hostile now feel instructional.

• Go to the eye of the storm
• Inspect the valley pad again
• Set out across the far side clear air
• Return briefly to the valley's edge