Tonight was silent.
Not the comforting kind that comes after a long day, but the heavy, humming kind that pressed against your ribs and makes your pulse too loud.
A bright light blinded my eyes. I blinked, but the world didn't change. There was no ground, no horizon, just a sea of white stretching forever. Like someone took the concept of a limbo and decided it needed a minimalist redesign.
"Okay," I muttered to myself. "Either I died, or the System dragged me into another one of its nightmare PowerPoint presentations."
Right on cue, a voice echoed from nowhere, calm, neutral, and smug in the way only a piece of sentient software can be.
[Correction: This environment has been created to facilitate communication.]
I groaned. "Of course it has. Couldn't just send me a memo, huh? Had to go full celestial void."
[Host emotional levels are unstable. Intervention required.]
"Yeah, well, maybe that's because someone keeps threatening to 'recalibrate' me like a broken toaster!"
