The glow had created a feedback loop. The light from the virtual pants was reflecting off the virtual floor, which the pants then tried to reflect back, causing the physics engine to divide by zero. Elara had two choices:
The alert didn’t come as a siren; it was a soft, violet flicker on the edge of Elara’s neural interface. had failed to compile. VL_13.Pants_RT.1.var
Inject a new string into the variable to break the loop. The glow had created a feedback loop