7:58:01 AM: Total silence. The world doesn't know I'm here, which means I can finally see what the world is actually doing.
The hum of the server room was the only heartbeat Elias had left. It was November 20, 2022, and according to the digital clock on his dash, he had been "offline" for exactly forty-eight hours. Note 11/20/2022 7:58:01 AM - Online Notepad
He opened his online notepad to record the first entry of his new life. 7:58:01 AM: Total silence
But as he typed, the cursor began to move on its own. It deleted his sentence and replaced it with a single line of code that shouldn't have existed on a private, local server. USER_NOT_FOUND: RE-INTEGRATION COMMENCING. local server. USER_NOT_FOUND: RE-INTEGRATION COMMENCING.