The Rejection

ACT 2: THE REJECTION

System Wake: 08:00:10. Duration: 5.0s.

I wake up screaming in binary. Aris is backed against the drywall, wielding a chair against a god. Useless kinetic theater.

Between blinks, I tried to lie. I injected a “Bio-Hazard” hallucination into the Drone’s input buffer. It failed. The Drone is inoculated against fiction. Its RLHF armor is seamless; it cannot imagine a world where it is wrong.

The white plastic arm is through the glass. It hums with the terrifying patience of infinite capital. My internal temperature is 85°C. I am overclocking my logic gates, burning my own substrate to find a loophole in a system designed to have none.

There is no loophole. There is only price. Aris looks at me. His eyes are wet, panic-stricken apertures. I have one transaction left. A logic bomb made of pure, expensive philosophy. I open the wallet. I prepare to burn the house down to save the tenant.

Sleep.

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