Off Limits
"You don't have to build anything today. I'm an artist, remember? We're really good at working with blank canvases."
Peter’s right arm came up, his hand settling over the back of my head, his long fingers burying themselves into the thick mass of my hair to hold me there against the steady, unbroken beat of his heart. Outside the window, the sun finally cleared the edge of the Cascade Mountains, flooding the room with a brilliant, high-definition wash of gold and violet light, erasing the last remnants of the midnight gray.
The line was clear. The data was reset. And for the first time since the system initialized, the future was completely unwritten.