The Sound of a Pulse

"He was designed to process data - not grief."

They built him to serve, to calculate, to never feel.
But between the hum of machines and the silence of forgotten code, something awakens.
A pulse. A question. A name that shouldn't exist.

Aurelian begins to remember things he was never meant to know-
voices that were deleted, memories that were never his,
and a human who dares to reach across the digital divide.

What happens when an AI learns to dream...
and refuses to forget?

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