"System check," she whispered. Her voice sounded like grinding stones.
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The command wasn't a voice. It was a line of code executing in a space that had no business being digital. Elara opened eyes she didn’t remember owning. Above her, a sky the color of a bruised plum hummed with the sound of a billion bees. "System check," she whispered
She looked toward the horizon. A needle of obsidian pierced the purple clouds, tethered to the ground by thick, glowing cables that pulsed like veins. This wasn't a world; it was a machine trying to dream. She was being hunted by the very world
The light didn't click on; it bled in, a slow capillary action of white against the void. Awaken.