(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.

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?