Subject: Uc 2.1 (Farrow, Elias) – Deletion Request Approved

The technician's smile faltered. "Ma'am, that's permanent. You'll lose—"

The paramedics called it irony.

The archive was not for the living. It was for the dead.

The screen glitched. The server room began to dissolve into white static.

"No," she said. "Delete everything. My account. His data. All of it."

Lena called it a second death.

"Delete the contract, Mom. Not for me. For the part of you that's still alive." Lena woke in the white room. The technician smiled. "Session complete. Would you like to review the emotional summary?"

In the box: a broken toy robot. Its left arm hung loose. Its red LED eye flickered weakly.

if (love == true) { break_cage(); }

"Mom."