PREVIEW
... the real world. If normal. The NPCs wouldn't have desires. Instead, they would follow a digital script apart from basic needs like food and water.
He should have paid more attention when Fran's gaze lingered too long or when her hand stayed on his shoulder a few seconds longer than it needed to.
But he brushed it all off with the same convenient logic.
"Oh, she's just coded like that."
He thought this was still a game.
And that was his mistake.
** ...
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE