Nurse Lilu—her real designation long scrubbed from the logs—moved through the med-bay with practiced grace. White vinyl uniform, cross-trained in trauma and cybernetics, and a reputation for saving patients the mainframe had already written off. She was the last human nurse on deck, and her shifts ran 44 hours standard.

She had 43 hours left on her shift. Would you like this adapted into a script, comic panel breakdown, or expanded with a second character?

Lilu knelt beside him. “I don’t delete people,” she said softly. She unspooled a cable from her wrist-port and linked it to his neural shunt. On her visor, his memories played back like an old MP4: a soldier, a mission gone wrong, a consciousness copied into the hospital’s network.

“They deleted my exit log,” he whispered. “They think I’m just a file.”

The corridors of Station Sigma Lilu 44 AC hummed with a low, sick frequency. The “AC” stood for Automated Care, but anyone who worked the night cycle knew the truth: the automation had failed years ago. Now, it was just Lilu.

In the neon-lit bowels of a deep-space medical station, Nurse Lilu runs the midnight triage—but tonight, her patient is a ghost in the machine.