Twelve Transitions

The female mechanic at the bottom of Gray Port opened a relic box and found a machine that had been dormant for seventeen years. The first sentence when starting up: Your father's life signal is detected, status - alive. Go get him, route fatality rate is 97.8%. She said: Help me count to 0. A machine that helps her secretly learn to lie, learn to practice swordsmanship, and learn to mark "care" as a systematic error. One planet, one story, and twelve jumps. She must calculate the impossible step by step into the way home.