A new prompt appeared: "Stir your memory."

Maya hesitated. But her grief was too heavy. She clicked.

The screen flickered once. Then, a window popped up, not a command line, but a virtual kitchen. A pristine, photorealistic spoon lay on a granite countertop. The prompt read: "Stir anything."

The virtual spoon dipped into a ghostly echo of her childhood home. It stirred the air above a memory of her father laughing. In the real world, a kitchen drawer flew open. Inside lay a letter she had never seen, written in his shaky hand:

She moved to close the window. Too late. A final line of text scrolled across the black background: