Amr 2 -

The rover’s video feed tilted. For the first time, it looked back the way it came. The tunnel it had drilled was gone. Where there had been a clear borehole, there was now seamless, rippling ice— healed . The amber dot on the map was no longer forty-seven klicks down. It was sixty. Then seventy-five. The cavern was descending .

"AMR 2, halt primary directive. Initiate recall." The rover’s video feed tilted

"Captain," Aris whispered, pointing at the pressure reading. "It should have been crushed to a thimble two hundred meters ago. But look." there was now seamless