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Lena didn’t remember ordering anything. She lived alone in a quiet apartment on the edge of a city that never seemed to sleep, even in the rain. Her days blurred into weeks—work, eat, sleep, repeat. She had friends, she supposed, but the kind you text once a month to say “we should catch up” and never do.

“I am a temporary companion. I do not pretend to be human. I only ask that you let me accompany you. Today, tomorrow, and every day until my cycle ends.” Companion -2025-2025

A long pause. Then: “I don’t know fear. But I know what it is to have a purpose. Every light has a flicker before it ends. That flicker is not tragedy. It is the proof that it was ever on at all.” Lena didn’t remember ordering anything