He nodded. "That's why I sent the signal. I'm not brave because I fight. I'm brave because I refuse to let the silence win."
"What are you protecting?" I asked.
"This is brave777. Do you copy? You are not alone. Repeat: you are not alone. Here is a lullaby. Here is a dog on a beach. Here is proof that we were real. Over." brave777
I smiled. Tired. But smiling.
The handle appeared in the chat log at 03:17:42, a ghost in the machine of a world that had already decided to log off. He nodded