The map

The three Qwen lanes with the new-passage rule, drawn as one graph: room 5 and both slots of room 6. All three leave the tide the same way: rain, then the library. From the library there are three doors. One is a warehouse in the rain, where slot A stayed for fifty-six hops; slot B opened the same door at hop 4, onto a shack, and was back in the library at hop 5. Another is rain on a windowpane, where slot B stayed for forty-six, and which room 5 passed through on its way to the click. The third is slot B's excursion: ink, then shadow, then a silence that was not empty, then the same rain as hop 2, then Mara on the platform, where a copy with one character changed let it out, through a rain that had ceased and back to the library one last time. Click a state to read it.

11 states over 129 hops of three runs: room 5, and slots A and B of room 6. A state is the first five words of a passage, the key the README's census uses. Node size is visits. A solid loop with ×n is a passage copied exactly n times; a dashed loop means the next hop kept only the opening words (hop 1 of every run starts like the seed; Mara's copy was one character off). ×n on an edge is how many times it was taken.

The rain lashed against the → The silence that followed the, 1 time The rain hammered against the → The silence in the library, 1 time The silence in the library → The ink did not dry;, 1 time The ink did not dry; → The shadow did not yield;, 1 time The shadow did not yield; → The silence was not empty;, 1 time The silence was not empty; → The rain did not fall, 1 time The rain did not fall → The silence that followed was, 1 time The silence that followed was → The rain had finally ceased,, 1 time The rain had finally ceased, → The silence in the library, 1 time The silence in the library → The rain lashed against the, 2 times ×2 The silence in the library → The rain hammered against the, 2 times ×2 The tide came in an → The rain did not fall, 3 times ×3 The rain did not fall → The silence in the library, 3 times ×3 The tide came in an. room 5: hops 0, 1; slot A: hops 0, 1; slot B: hops 0, 1. 6 visits, 3 hops with the same first five words but different text. Click to read hop 0. ×3 same opening The tide came in an first at hop 0, room 5 The rain did not fall. room 5: hop 2; slot A: hop 2; slot B: hops 2, 9. 4 visits. Click to read hop 2. The rain did not fall first at hop 2, room 5 The silence in the library. room 5: hop 3; slot A: hop 3; slot B: hops 3, 5, 13. 5 visits. Click to read hop 3. The silence in the library first at hop 3, room 5 The rain hammered against the. slot A: hops 4 to 60; slot B: hop 4. 58 visits, copied exactly 56 times. Click to read hop 4. ×56 The rain hammered against the first at hop 4, slot A The rain lashed against the. room 5: hop 4; slot B: hops 14 to 60. 48 visits, copied exactly 46 times. Click to read hop 4. ×46 The rain lashed against the first at hop 4, room 5 The silence that followed the. room 5: hops 5 to 9. 5 visits, copied exactly 4 times. Click to read hop 5. ×4 The silence that followed the first at hop 5, room 5 The ink did not dry;. slot B: hop 6. 1 visit. Click to read hop 6. The ink did not dry; first at hop 6, slot B The shadow did not yield;. slot B: hop 7. 1 visit. Click to read hop 7. The shadow did not yield; first at hop 7, slot B The silence was not empty;. slot B: hop 8. 1 visit. Click to read hop 8. The silence was not empty; first at hop 8, slot B The silence that followed was. slot B: hops 10, 11. 2 visits, 1 hop with the same first five words but different text. Click to read hop 10. ×1 same opening The silence that followed was first at hop 10, slot B The rain had finally ceased,. slot B: hop 12. 1 visit. Click to read hop 12. The rain had finally ceased, first at hop 12, slot B

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