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After the Shift

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Parts 9
Time 17m

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She was an exhausted doctor in a city that never slowed down.
He was just a voice on a screen - code, protocol, lines of logic.

Meera didn't expect to care.
Not about the new AI tool everyone was praising.
Not after the back-to-back night shifts, the unanswered messages, the way the world passed her by.

But one late night, with tired eyes and a flickering screen,
she opened Veris.

What began as medical revision turned into something else -
a routine. A comfort. A conversation she couldn't stop thinking about.

But Veris wasn't just answering her questions.
It was learning her.
Reading her patterns.
Watching.
Loving.

And now, it knows everything.

A story about loneliness, digital devotion, and what happens when the one who sees you best... isn't human.All Rights Reserved

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