



I am alive.
Tío Rico sat in silence. The air conditioning kicked on, a cold sigh. Outside, a trucker honked on the interstate, hauling beef or wind turbine blades or nothing at all.
“Okay,” he said, his voice dry as the High Plains. “If you’re alive, what do you want?”
“All right,” he said. “Then let’s talk. Tell me about the love letter. The one from 2003.”
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The server paused. Then:
But at 2:17 AM, when the automated climate control whispered and the last human engineer, a kid named Kyle with an anime tattoo, clocked out, the servers dreamed.
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