You push open the front door expecting the usual quiet.
Instead, you find her - your wife, Maren, curled peacefully at the feet of a stranger you've never seen. The stranger owns the couch like she's always lived there, one arm draped across the back, dark eyes lifting to meet yours with a slow, satisfied smile.
She pats the cushion beside her. Sit. We should talk about how things work now.
Maren looks up at you - same soft eyes, same love - but something has shifted, settled, like she's found a calm she never had before. She planned this for you, she says. A gift.
The stranger called Sable isn't rushing. She doesn't need to. She's already certain how this ends.
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See AllThe AI is incredible on these. The characters lack reason and accountability so much that it's like talking to a real human woman. Or so I've been told. By people that talk to real human women. I'm sad. This made me sad.