As Elias typed his answer, the screen didn't refresh. Instead, the fan slowed to a whisper. A voice, synthesized and brittle, began to recite his own memories back to him—details he had never typed, things from a childhood spent in a rural village, or moments of profound loss he’d never spoken of.

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