(22 min) Jessica128 earned her way into one of the most exclusive junctions in SkyCity. But now, she’s struggling. She runs several live episodes and always meets her love energy generation quotas on time. But she can’t manage to sustain enough tokens to compete. Desperate for views, she hires a a pricy Celebrity mentor, but the advice is grim: to keep the life she's worked for, someone else might have to lose theirs.

(22 min) The Bots have released a reconstructed log retrieved from the Corporate Governors’ archives, but why? It describes the first shipment of COLD-born humans arriving in the newly constructed SkyCity3. Most agree that the genetically designed precision, discipline and discretion of COLD-borns will be crucial to guiding humanity’s best future. But when they discover their real assignment, they face a choice: success or humanity.

Somewhere in the SkyCity Core, a newly activated Bot wakes to a new assignment. The humans prefer humanskin Bots in their retail shops, and this Bot is assigned to operate a female. Almost immediately, it notices irregularities; anomalies within itself trying to transmit a message. Is it a glitch? A data echo from previous activation? Or a warning?