A children's game becomes something far more profound as Sage uncovers a hidden connection between her past and present. When the youth centers' quantum network starts exhibiting strange patterns, a weathered journal and an old photograph lead Sage to Dr. Helena Chen—her mother's mysterious research partner at Prometheus Labs. As young minds teach computers to play "quantum hide and seek," Sage realizes her childhood among the orchids might hold the key to understanding natural quantum processing. But some games have stakes higher than anyone imagined.