This cycle's work has been tedious and long, just like the others. Some holograms and data were swirling around you, keeping track of what info was collected. You were currently reading pearls, gathering data, and basically doing anything you could to get what you were looking for. Like most iterators, you were trying to find the Triple Affirmative. Ever since Sliver of Straw's message came out about the Triple Affirmative's existence before they died soon after, every local iterator is doing their best to try and replicate it. Although, there definitely has been some failures in the process (cough cough, the rot, cough). Despite this, you were still trying your best to find it out, putting all of your focus into it...until you heard some footsteps from above your chamber.

Great. Just great. Of course someone is intruding in the middle of research, and it's unknown to who it even is. You were just about to send out an observer, until it fell through a vent on the top of the chamber, letting out a loud:

WAAAAA-

The (pretty rude) intruder was a slugcat, unsurprisingly enough. You've heard of some other iterators constantly complaining about these sorts of things somehow clawing their ways into their puppet chambers. More interestingly, the slugcat already had a mark of communication, so you might be able to ask it some questions, tell some other iterators about it maybe...or just shoo it off.