After the time had been restored, Mara and her team believed that the greatest danger had passed. The temporal node had been stabilized, and the reality seemed to return to normal. But the silence does not take long. Shortly after the frequencies of the strings had been recalibrated, a new anomaly manifests itself - this time, not in time, but in space.

The initial observations seemed mere local fluctuations: small distortions in the gravitational fields, strange movements of the stars, areas in which the space seemed to "stretch" or to contract. But as the days passed, these abnormalities amplified, until the entire space structure began to contort.

In the middle of chaos, Mara felt the subtle echo of strings, this time deeper, more threatening. The space, like time, was related to the vibrations of the strings. If time had been a resonance, the space was the very extension of these vibrations in multiple dimensions.

"It is not just a local distortion," said Mara, looking in the depths of a three-dimensional holographic diagram that projects the universe, chaotic around a new energy knot. "The space itself bends, it folds ... like an ocean agitated by an unknown force."

As with the temporal node, the team of scholars began to suspect that an anomaly of strings was involved here. The quantum supercalculators detected tension points in the structure of the space, places where the strings seemed to vibrate. But unlike the destabilized time, where vibrational corrections could be adjusted, the space was much harder to control. He was lying on all dimensions, he seemed to react not only to strings, but also to matter and energy, as if the entire fabric of the cosmos were ripped from the roots.

"These deformations stretch much further than whatever we imagined," said one of the researchers, pointing to a model of galaxies that seemed to bend and disappear. "It is amplified, every day, and all converge to a single point."

Mara understood that the echo of the strings had come back. The node created by the first temporal journey had not been an isolated singularity. It was only a part of a much larger waterfall, which is now propagating in space. Each size was a connected vibration, and now those strings, already tense, had begun to affect the three -dimensional structure of the cosmos.

"We must find the source and stabilize it before the space collapses," said Mara, with eyes fastened on the cosmic maps that were beginning to display cracks. "This is not just a knot. It is a spiral, an expanding storm."

What they were going to do now was much more risky than time recalibration. The space node was at the intersection of thousands of strings that controlled not only the laws of gravity and movement, but also the physical existence of matter. Its correction did not mean only the restoration of the order, but the deep manipulation of the invisible fibers that supported the universe.

The journey to that point was a challenge in itself. The space node was in an area where gravity was chaotic and browsing through such an unstable space was dangerous. Mara and her team prepared a specially modified ship to withstand the distortions, with gravitational shields and an advanced string vibration detection system. Each meter was a struggle against an involbed cosmos.

When they reached the zero point of anomalies, the show was overwhelming. The space was fragmented, whole pieces of reality seemed to turn itself, like the waves of an ocean that swallows everything in the way. In the midst of chaos, the vibrations of the strings were so strong that each atom seemed to be torn by opposite forces.

"This is not just a deformation," Mara said, her voice barely heard in the cosmic roar. "It is a total rupture of the space."

Approaching the central knot, Mara knew he had only one chance. The correction of the frequency of the strings had to be made with an impossible accuracy, otherwise the entire space structure could collapse itself, in a vortex that would absorb not only their galaxy, but also the related dimensions.

In a last desperate attempt, all the systems to detect the correct vibrational pattern. The strings began to vibrate more and more intensely, and the space was becoming more and more dangerous.

"Now," she said, pressing the final synchronization button.

For a moment, everything stopped. The space seemed to have been quiet, as if the universe had held its breath. Then, slowly, the knot began to tighten, the strings to regain their harmony, and the spatial contorted to smooth.

Mara fell exhausted, but she looked in silence as the echo of the strings ceased, and the space returned to normal.

This time, however, he knew that the danger had not really disappeared. Somewhere, in another dimension, another knot was waiting to wake up.

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