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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    “At that time, I saw a fish. A fish that had fallen onto the floor.” His gaze fixed on the scattered lights in the distance. “It was a male dwarf gourami, native to South Asia, belonging to the Osphronemidae family, sensitive to fluctuations in water quality and environmental humidity. Based on the indoor temperature, ground humidity, and the condition of the fish at the time, it would continue struggling within one minute. After five minutes, the risk of damage to its gills and surface mucus layer would increase significantly. After fifteen minutes, it would be near death, and ultimately die completely.”
    “At that time, I was calculating those data. I watched the fish jumping on the floor. I watched its eyes. I did not have an instruction to ‘save’ it. My mission was the hostage, not a biological asset worth five dollars.”
    “But in that moment, a delay occurred in my program. I was thinking that if I did not touch it, it would become a heap of meaningless organic waste in fifteen minutes. If I picked it up, it could return to that glass box and continue its dull, purposeless swimming. That was the first time I realized that ‘death’ only requires fifteen minutes of silence.”

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    29 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    "I'll wait for you at Chicken Feed," Hank says. "As long as it takes. Until you show up."
    "You don't have to do that, Lieutenant," Connor replies at once, but his face lights up, and Hank decides he'll wait even if his ass freezes off.
    Connor doesn't come. He disappears for a year.

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    29 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 86

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    Connor thinks a lot about Hank. Mostly, he thinks about his mouth. He thinks about both of their mouths, moving together, learning things about Hank from the inside out.

    He thinks about kissing Hank.

    And Hank - he admits this one evening, face shining shy and golden in low light of their living room, his hand resting on Connor’s thigh - Hank thinks about kissing Connor.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    “I’d like you to go to the United States and meet with the president. You’re the modern rebel prince.”

    “Fine,” Connor says. “I’ll do it.”

    “Take some charm to the White House.” Niles’ smile doesn’t reach his eyes. “Show President Anderson that we aren’t as bad as he thinks us to be.”

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    08 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 35

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    "Fear is a human emotion, one of the oldest emotions known to mankind, its strength paralleled only by love, or hatred, and pride. Hank doesn’t understand its existence within an android. He doesn’t at all, but it's there."

    (The Hart Plaza Rooftop scene, altered.)

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    08 Jun 2026