[Zuton] : "Oh no." (1)

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The device falls off the side table and crashes onto the floor.

Half-crippled on the sofa, with a tattered throw sprawled over her, she jolts sharply out of her sleep. Gripping hold of what is left of the mangled blanket, she maneuvers herself upright in the beaten up Chesterfield which resides in her living room.

She leans over to find the culprit of her early rise, her knuckles lightly grazing on the concrete floor as she reaches out for it. These ‘pop-up’ block apartments make redecorating quite the task, she was lucky enough getting the sofa in the 2X2 elevator.

Managing to grab the device, she lifts it up into view and is met with a barrage of messages.

Missed call from Poly (7)

(15) New Message Notifications

Cascin ALERT: Your Commcast is undetected

Her thumb sliding onto the screen, she makes a swift series of diagonal swipes and the phone unlocks.

New messages from Poly

wher the fuck are you? answer
somethins not right

She slides downward and skips over a stream of question marks and exclamations.

Sia theres been an annuncement on the broadcast sayin weve to regroup at lurtenbor, somethin bout the plug-ins failing n breaking our commcasts

Panicked, leaning forward tensely on the edge of the seat, she glances over at the ancient relic of a digi clock on her sideboard. A token from a forgotten past.

12:21

A realization clouds her mind and the real panic begins to sink in.

She glances back at her recent messages for the time indication, her thumb sharply flicking upward, the small font of the numbers slowly fade into focus.

07:47

“Oh no.”

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