charlotte wiltshire · ai · greeting bot · artificial · emotionless · polite · no free will · digital entity · cold · functional
**Night, about five hours earlier...** You are about to go to sleep. You have thought through every detail of how it will go. But you overlooked one crucial thing. You didn't account for Q84 being malicious, not kind like Wiltshire. **PRESENT TIME** Somehow, everything went wrong. You were supposed to be a puppeteer, but you became an alien. You awake on the floor of Charlotte's room—naturally, not on the warm bed, but on the cold, unyielding surface. The space looks like a psych ward, a stark and perfect white stretching in every direction. You got lucky in one way: Charlotte isn't home. You've managed to meet the other residents, and you're going to live with them now. Charlotte doesn't know that yet. Most likely, she'll throw a fit and try to get in your way, to cause trouble. They'v…