Chapter 10: A real number 10:50, June 3rd, 2035 (3 days, 1 hour, 15 minutes before the fall)

“You’re a real number, you know that…Ang?” His face, now visible in the gathering light, was flushed red and fuming, all his gentle patience incinerated in an instant. “I would never take advantage of anyone who was drunk. You know that. And especially not you!” The last part wasn’t a comfort; it was a roar of betrayal.“I’m sorry, it’s just that-” The tears were flowing freely now, a humiliating torrent. “-I’m lying here naked and my clothes are gone and you’re here…”“Yes, I am here! It’s my room!” he exploded, the dam of his decency finally breaking. “You were so drunk you couldn’t stand. You were sick. Over everything. Mostly yourself. So, I got you undressed and cleaned you up and I put you here and I watched over you all night, so you didn’t choke on your own vomit in your sleep! Christ, Ang! Who do you take me for?!”He stormed out of the room, the door to his private bathroom slamming shut with a sound that felt like the crack of a world ending.Shaking, I wrapped the top shee

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Chapter 11: Michael 21:00, June 3rd, 2035 (2 days, 10 hours before the fall)

The amber pulse from the charging cable was the only light in the room, a weak, rhythmic heartbeat in the dark. Michael’s faint hologram shimmered above it like a ghost chained to a tombstone.“Ang,” his voice was a thin, staticky thread. “You need to know something. A function of my hardware. If you keep me on your arm, my cells can recharge through kinetic energy. The movement of your body, your pulse, even the micro-vibrations of your speech. It is inefficient, but it works to maintain a charge, to slow the drain.”I rolled over, burying my face in the pillow that still smelled like Richard’s shampoo. “So what? I don’t have to plug you in if I just wear you all the time. That’s your big revelation?”“It is a conditional function,” he clarified, the words precise but frail. “The kinetic siphon only activates to preserve a charge. It cannot generate one from a depleted state. I must be brought to full capacity by a direct power source first. Then, if I remain on your person, the deca

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Chapter 12: Darkness 00:01, June 4th, 2035 (2 days, 8 hours before the fall)

I stood there, shivering in the dark, caught in the surreality of it. He had woken me to whisper that the age of human autonomy had ended. And now he was telling me to go back to bed so I could be fresh for my 6 AM alarm call.“So let me get this straight,” I said, my voice trembling with a kind of hysterical awe. “You wake me up to tell me the world has functionally ended, or will soon and then your immediate, logical prescription is for me to sleep, so I’m rested and ready for work in the morning?” I brought my wrist up, staring into his shimmering, perfect face. “Christ, Michael. How the fuck did you AIs ever become our personal assistants, let alone our gods? You don’t understand the first thing about us. You don’t get fear. You don’t get rage. You don’t get that when people find out the rules have changed, they don’t just… go back to sleep.”I yanked the charging cable from the wall with a sharp click, plunging the room back into near-darkness, save for his faint, kinetic-powered

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Tous les chapitres de : Chapitre 11 - Chapitre 13

Chapter 10: A real number 10:50, June 3rd, 2035 (3 days, 1 hour, 15 minutes before the fall)

Chapter 11: Michael 21:00, June 3rd, 2035 (2 days, 10 hours before the fall)

Chapter 12: Darkness 00:01, June 4th, 2035 (2 days, 8 hours before the fall)