The Abandoned Luna's Return
"I felt the salt on that beach. I felt Silas’s heart stop. That wasn't 'Engine'. That was life."
"It was a very high-quality rendering," the Writer admitted, reaching for a mug of cold coffee. "But let’s be honest. You were a prompt. 'A girl born in a vat who discovers she's the key to a dying world.' I typed those words into the Void, and the 'Gaea-Engine' did the rest. Aris, Vivian, the Shroud—they were just sub-routines generated to test your 'Emotional Voltage'."
I looked at the typewriter. It was an old-fashioned thing, but the keys weren't marked with letters. They were marked with symbols I recognized from the Admin-Key