He woke to a dying world.

AI's failing.

Datastreams withering.

The Verse crumbling.

Populations shattered.

Civilizations lost.

And his thoughts were on his lost love.

He had every right to be selfish.

His self was all he had left.

The nanoswarms had taken everything else.

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