Elias held his breath. The wheel spun. One second. Two seconds. Ten seconds.
Elias smiled for the first time in half a decade. But as he reached for his coat to run across the square, a new notification appeared. Small. Gray. At the bottom of the screen.
He looked across the square. Mira was standing. Her lips moved, and though no sound could travel that far, he heard her voice inside his head—clear, uncorrupted, laughing—as if she had never left.
And somewhere deep in the kernel of Harmony, a line of code waited for his thumb to hover over another button. Download. Always download. Never stop downloading.