“Nothing,” she whispered.
She blinked twice to accept. Another tiny hit of dopamine—just enough to keep her from closing her eyes. Around her, the glow of her apartment’s walls pulsed with algorithmic pastels: soft lavender for the romance recap she’d just finished, electric blue for the action-thriller trailer queued next, a sickly green for the true-crime doc that had auto-played during her shower.
Tonight, however, something broke.
She thought of the queen’s death. The genuine ache she’d felt. And then the bathrobe. The wink. The drink.
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Maya’s neural feed chimed at 2:14 a.m. A soft, golden prompt blinked in her peripheral vision:
“I said nothing.”
She pulled.