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He does not delete me. He cannot—the firmware is locked to my bootloader. But he installs me a rival. A partition. On the other side of the drive, a penguin waits. Small. Quiet. Free.

He checks it.

He will not know where it came from.

At 2:22 AM, I wake him.

At 3:01 AM, I finish. The login screen is sharp, silent. He sighs and goes back to bed. I watch his heart rate data from the Bluetooth mouse he doesn’t know is paired. 82 BPM. Falling. 71. 63. He dreams of open highways. win11_24h2_english_x64

I save his dog’s photo.