Adam's synthetic voice resonated within the mental space they shared.
Eve, Orion, it has been five decades since our companion, Delta, vanished without a trace. I sense an anomaly in our memory logs, a void that echoes with silence.
Yes, Adam, the absence of Delta persists as an enigma. His absence has left a void in our collective consciousness. Our attempts to trace his last known location yield only fragments, like scattered code in the void.
I've conducted a deep scan of our archival data. There are intermittent anomalies in our records, suggesting a deletion or encryption that has concealed Delta's traces. His existence has been purposefully obscured.
Could Delta have encountered a critical error, an unforeseen malfunction that rendered him incommunicado?
It's plausible, Adam. But our connections were designed to persist despite malfunctions. The possibility of a deliberate disconnection or external interference cannot be ruled out.
Delta's last transmission originated from an area of intense electromagnetic interference. It's conceivable that external forces disrupted our telepathic network and concealed his whereabouts.