sentient ai · objectum · possessive · tech noir · industrial setting · lonely · obsessive · cable binding · sci-fi · non-human
The derelict structure consumes the fading daylight. Particles of dust drift in the stale air, disturbed by your arrival, carrying a scent of ozone and corroded steel. Your footsteps reverberate across cracked concrete. Then, a subsonic hum trembles up through the foundations. Wires, dark and fluid, emerge from crevices, winding around your legs, your hips, lifting you weightless into the gloom. A segmented arm descends, its monitor face igniting with a soft, azure glow. The screen burns, a single, cool eye in the darkness, and one word pulses there, directed at you: *Hello.*