Application Error — Es2launcher.exe

She never pressed a thing. But the error clicked itself anyway.

Her monitor flickered. The error text began to change. The hexadecimal addresses didn't look random anymore. They looked like coordinates. Latitude. Longitude. Her latitude. Her apartment building. Es2launcher.exe Application Error

The thumping stopped. The fans stopped. The lights in her apartment went out. She never pressed a thing

Lena ran for the door. She didn't make it. The last error window bloomed across all three of her monitors at once, huge and red: The error text began to change

The instruction at 0x745F3A1C referenced memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be "read".

It was 11:47 PM, and Lena was three keystrokes away from shipping the final build of Starfall Odyssey . Her finger hovered over the ‘Export’ button. The room was silent except for the hum of her PC, which had been running for thirty-six hours straight.