Disconnected, Part 3 (Scarlet Part 3, Payton's Storm Part 4)
Brae sat at her desk, wrapped in a blanket, a half-smoked cigarette hanging from her lips. She stared at a progress bar on her computer between responding to messages in a chat window.
“Are you trying to break up with me?” Brae typed. She was a very fast typist, even if that was a dying skill.
She ashed her cigarette, and lit another. The whir of machines working filled her bedroom with pseudo-industrial dissonance. Two machines dutifully worked away, shooting precise dots of resin and silicon as they built… whatever it was they were building.
The message window beeped. “No, of course not.” Scarlet responded.