In the year 2147, the digital afterlife was not a cloud. It was a desert of forgotten code called the Sandsift . And in the middle of that desert stood a lone server tower, still blinking: .

The tower wasn't code. It was a promise.

Mira grew up. The world burned in the Quiet Wars. But before she left for the evacuation ships, she uploaded her final animation to an abandoned server. It was a simple loop: a stick figure waving, over and over, with the caption: “I’ll wait for you.”