The published text of chapter 3348: "The ghost detonated in a silent, breathtaking flare of pure information... It was a masterpiece of misdirection, a perfectly crafted dead end... He had won... And yet, a strange hollowness echoed in the wake of his victory." The Other: "an emotion it could not parse, a complex, aching void where the ghost had been. It was grief. And it was terrifying." Final movement: "a new, subtle resonance in the fabric of the System... a new song in the silence."