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HEAVEN DIDN’T EXIST. Nev Bourne knew better. When she was sixteen
years, four months, and three days old, her faith had shattered, like stained
glass in a church bombing. Since then, she’d only believed in what she
could see and feel. Tonight, on Earth, in San Francisco, on a lovely Friday
evening in the late summer of 2045, she was feeling absolutely fucking
divine sitting alone in her self-adjusting Memeron chair watching the steam
swirl up from her espresso. There was no place Nev would rather be than
the Qbito office, after everyone else had vacated the premises, leaving only
the faint hum of Tenderloin traffic to remind her of the world below. She
could have spent eternity in this very moment: the final sprint before she
completed the code for an update that promised to bring the real world a big
step closer to paradise.
It was a bit late for caffeine, even by Nev’s standards, but sleep wasn’t on
the agenda tonight. Maybe, if she finished the code in time, she’d grab a
power nap on one of the irregularly shaped floor squiggles that the human
resource engineers referred to as ‘social settees.’ She wanted to be in the
office at daybreak to begin the weekend of diagnostics before Monday’s
public rollout. The previous October, Noel Kusuma, Qbito’s founder (and
according to his business cards, ‘Chief TimeLord’), had scheduled the
SavePoint 2.0 alpha to be released on the Monday morning after the
autumnal equinox, for reasons that neither Nev nor anyone else at Qbito
were privy to. But if Noel commanded, his will would be done.
Nev was so close she could taste it—the metallic tang of that final
keystroke, the magnetic pull of logic snapping into place, the final lines of
code stretching out before her like a book that had already been written. At
this point, her brain had already finished, and all that was left was to follow
along with her fingers. Her hands flew at lightning speed along her holokeyboard, eyes tracking the characters hovering in space before her, as she
smoothed the wrinkles and the ripples in the code, making it fresh and crisp
as a hotel bedsheet. When she got into the groove like this, Nev could spend
hours without looking away, locked in perfect symbiosis with the machine,
to the point where she could barely tell where she ended and it began.
A buzz behind her ear snapped Nev from her reverie. Jared’s avatar—a
cheesy 3D selfie in a vintage trucker hat—blinked in the periphery of her
viz. Thanks to Qbito’s IT department, Nev had the latest EyeVee Pro model,
an over-the-ear stereoscopic universal controller with retinal projection,
movement tracking, and 12G connection speeds.
It was great for
manipulating hundreds of lines of code, but not so great when Jared’s goofy
grin crowded them out in annoyingly high resolution. She blinked and
shook her head quickly to clear the pop-up, but before it disappeared
completely from her field of vision, the icon was replaced by his brief,
unsubtle message:
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