"When we nudged Cursion into experimenting with Eunice," Ash said, "who they hadn’t yet tried to monetize, we understood that we’d be destabilizing them. A side effect, as far as we were concerned, but since then they haven’t been operating in their comfort zone. By now, having had to cope, however briefly, with a fully laminar iteration of Eunice, not to mention the various anomalies our involvement presents them with, destabilization has tipped over into dysfunction."