For the next thirty hours, Leo sculpted. The pavilion took shape—sweeping roof planes, a ribcage structure, a horn-like spire at the entrance. He named the file rhino_download_final.3dm . He rendered it in soft sunset light. It was beautiful.

And in the morning, scratched into the concrete wall of the enclosure, were three words:

The file name changed. rhino_download_final.3dm became rhinoceros_awakening.3dm . And then the model took one step forward inside the viewport. The floor of the digital plane dented under its weight.