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00:00The building had cracked. Residents flooded the hallway outside Liam's apartment.
00:04Some carrying children, some helping elders, all wading through calf-deep water.
00:08They banged on the door, shouted, and pressed their palms against it.
00:11Liam's mother opened it a crack and blocked the gap.
00:14Why should we give you anything?
00:16This is Ava's ability, not ours.
00:19She doesn't owe you a thing.
00:21Figure it out yourselves.
00:23It didn't work.
00:24In a normal world, it might have.
00:26But the deluge had destroyed normal life weeks ago.
00:29People were desperate now.
00:30They had no patience left.
00:32The knocking turned to pounding.
00:33Voices exploded in the hallway.
00:35Scared, angry, begging, threatening.
00:38Ava clung to Liam's back, pale as chalk.
00:44Back off! There's nothing for you here.
00:51Then someone grabbed a wooden plank and slammed it into the doorframe.
00:54Liam stepped back, quietly, carefully, until he was standing behind his mother.
01:01Ava! Do something!
01:04You have the system!
01:06Give them something, anything! Just make them leave!
01:08Ava stood between the wall and the crowd with her hands shaking and her jaw locked.
01:12She understood what giving them anything would mean.
01:15Once you fed a crowd, the crowd returned.
01:17Hungrier.
01:18Bolder.
01:19With more people behind it.
01:20But the alternative was the door coming off its hinges, and Liam's family already shrinking backward.
01:25She gave in.
01:26She grabbed a single piece of bread from the kitchen counter and activated the macro multiplier.
01:31The bread swelled, slowly, then rapidly, until it stood nearly waist height and dense as a vehicle tire.
01:37It hit the floor with a heavy thud.
01:39The hallway went silent for approximately three seconds, then every person in it surged forward at once.
01:44They tore the bread apart with their hands, with their teeth.
01:47The noise was immediate and overwhelming.
01:50A scramble of bodies, sharp elbows, raw voices.
01:53No one waited.
01:54No one thought of anyone else.
01:56Ava pressed herself against the wall and watched.
01:58Liam's family exhaled with relief, as if they had solved something.
02:02They had solved nothing.
02:03The bread was gone in minutes, and the crowd, far from satisfied,
02:07was simply now confident that this door was worth coming back to.
02:10The people surged forward again before long.
02:15This time, the demands had escalated.
02:18Water, blankets, clothing.
02:21Ava should come with us.
02:23We've organized on the lower floors.
02:25She'll be safer with us.
02:27Mutually beneficial.
02:31Enlarge more!
02:32Get the crackers from the cabinet!
02:34Enlarge those too!
02:35Something, anything, just keep them back!
02:38The cabinet was nearly empty.
02:40Every item she enlarged was an item they couldn't replace.
02:43Ava didn't want to.
02:45Ava.
02:47Just this once.
02:49I'll take care of you.
02:51I promise.
02:53She looked at him.
02:54She activated the system.
02:57The crackers expanded.
02:59Before the last of them had finished swelling.
03:04The shoving started before anyone had even gotten a piece.
03:08People clawing at each other.
03:10Punching.
03:11One man slamming another hard into the wall.
03:13Hard enough to leave a dent.
03:14When it finally gave way, people poured through the apartment like water finding its level, lifting couch cushions, dragging shelves
03:21off walls, pulling cabinet doors from their hinges, and tossing them aside.
03:25Liam's family retreated to the master bedroom to turn the lock.
03:28They sat in the dark, still and silent, while everything outside was stripped to nothing.
03:33Ava folded herself into the corner of the bedroom, arms wrapped around her knees, and stared at her own hands.
03:40The system that had felt like a superpower three weeks ago, the thing she had bargained and maneuvered and ultimately
03:46betrayed a person for, had become a target painted directly onto her back.
03:50She had wielded it to buy affection, and instead bought a siege.
03:54And in the quiet of that corner, other memories surfaced.
03:57Not of Liam, of me.
03:59The years I had worked myself down to nothing, so she could live without worrying about money.
04:06The apartment I had bought before I was 25, because I wanted her to feel stable and secure.
04:11The five years in my past life where I had rationed every meal, stretched every resource, refused to break even
04:18when she begged me to give our stores away.
04:19Because I had understood, even then, that survival required making hard choices and holding to them.
04:26She had called me selfish for that.
04:28She had pushed me off the roof for that.
04:31And now, she was crouching in the dark in a stranger's trashed bedroom.
04:35And all her cleverness and all her beautiful plans had led her here.
04:39The deluge didn't pause.
04:40The rain fell without interruption.
04:42On the lower floors, water had reached the base of the stairwells.
04:46The building's lobby was fully submerged.
04:48The air in the locked bedroom smelled of wet plaster and mildew and fear.
04:53The macro multiplier had grown unpredictable, sometimes failing to activate at all, other times stuttering halfway through enlargement.
05:00Whatever it was drawing from, it was running low.
05:02Liam was the first to say it directly.
05:07This is your fault!
05:09If you hadn't been showing it off, none of this would have happened!
05:13Ava stared at him.
05:16You're the one who asked me to use it.
05:18You're the one who-
05:18I asked you to help us.
05:20Not to advertise yourself to the entire building!
05:23His voice was flat and final, carrying nothing of the warmth.
05:29We're out of food.
05:30We've got half the building camped outside the door.
05:33And now you can't even get the system to work reliably!
05:37We're going to die here.
05:39We're going to die here.
05:40Because of you.
05:41Liam's mother stepped in without missing a beat.
05:44I said from the beginning that you weren't right for my son.
05:46A girl like you.
05:47No degree.
05:48No real job.
05:49No prospects.
05:50I should have said something sooner.
05:52You're the one who brought this trouble to our door.
05:55This is on you.
05:56Ava looked at the two of them.
05:58The woman who had called her a treasure 24 hours ago.
06:01The man who had promised her marriage.
06:03She saw them clearly.
06:05Perhaps for the first time in years.
06:07She was not family to these people.
06:09She had never been a girlfriend, a partner, a future daughter-in-law.
06:13She was a resource they had milked until it backfired.
06:16And now she was a liability they needed someone to blame.
06:19She had been exactly that from the very beginning.
06:21The rain didn't relent.
06:23Water seeped under the bedroom door and spread across the floor in a dark, growing sheet.
06:28The air turned thick and heavy, soaking into clothes and skin.
06:31Liam's father had been coughing since the second week.
06:34A deep, wet cough that wouldn't stop.
06:36Now he could barely get out of bed.
06:37Liam's mother followed days later.
06:39Vomiting, chills, and fever.
06:41Too weak to stand.
06:42They ran out of clean water early.
06:44They drank whatever pooled on the floor.
06:46Strained through whatever fabric they could find.
06:48It wasn't enough.
06:49Ava watched them waste away from across the room.
06:52She felt no satisfaction.
06:54No grief.
06:54Only a deep, hollow exhaustion.
06:56Like she'd finally reached the end of something she'd been trapped in far longer than she'd known.
07:01She tried to leave.
07:02The water in the hallway was waste deep.
07:03The crowd outside had grown even more desperate and unpredictable.
07:07There was no safe way out.
07:08She activated the macro multiplier one last time.
07:11Trying to enlarge a wooden plank into something she could float on.
07:14Nothing happened.
07:15She tried again.
07:16The system was gone.
07:17Its power had burned out completely.
07:19Leaving no trace.
07:20No warmth.
07:21Nothing she'd once taken for granted.
07:23I watched it all on the camera feed.
07:25Sitting cross-legged on the floor of my small shelter.
07:27A cup of tea cooled beside me.
07:29Then I sat down my phone.
07:31Walked out to the enclosure.
07:32And scattered the evening feed.
07:33My small farm had settled into something I could only call, genuinely good.
07:38The chickens had settled into a routine.
07:40Scratching in the morning.
07:41Dust bathing in the afternoon.
07:43They laid steadily now.
07:44Three or four eggs before noon.
07:45I had more than I could eat fresh, so I tried recipes I'd never had time for.
07:50A light sponge cake.
07:51Soft boiled eggs with vinegar salt.
07:53Slow-cooked custard that set golden and smooth overnight.
07:56I'd expanded the farm twice, adding more compact topsoil and rotating crops.
08:01Tomatoes, herbs, and a small citrus tree.
08:03It had fruited faster than I expected, with clusters of tiny, sharp, tart fruit.
08:08The little house had been refurbished room by room with the time and materials I had.
08:12A proper desk.
08:13Bookshelves along one wall.
08:15A reading corner with the lamp angled just right.
08:17I read in the evenings.
08:18I gardened in the mornings.
08:20I cooked every meal with real attention.
08:22Through the camera feed, the world above me told a different story.
08:25The deluge had passed the one-year mark.
08:27Conditions in Liam's apartment were deteriorating fast.
08:30Liam's father was gone, malnutrition, and the persistent respiratory illness had taken him in his sleep.
08:36The room still smelled of flood water and mildew.
08:38Liam's mother was fading fast too.
08:41By the first anniversary of the deluge, Liam was barely recognizable.
08:45The easy confidence that had defined him, his polished composure, casual arrogance, was gone.
08:51He was gone.
08:52His face sharpened.
08:53High cheekbones.
08:54Hollow.
08:54Lifeless eyes.
08:56He moved slowly.
08:57He barely spoke.
08:58With no food left, they scraped lime plaster from the walls to quiet their hunger.
09:02It wasn't living.
09:03It was just surviving.
09:05Each morning, Ava sat by the window and watched the rain.
09:08Quiet.
09:08Finally accepting it would never stop.
09:10In her better moments, she turned over the memory she couldn't stop returning to.
09:14In the reading room, I was working through the backlog of books I had always meant to get to and
09:19never had.
09:19I'd made a small study in one corner of the house.
09:23Shelves, a workbench, a lamp angled just right.
09:26After dinner, I read.
09:27Philosophy, agriculture, history, guides.
09:31I taught myself woodworking from a manual, finishing two pieces from early minimized timber.
09:35A stool, a narrow side table under the lamp.
09:38When the deluge hit its third year, the camera feed across the hall went still.
09:42Flood water had risen too high to survive.
09:45Liam's mother was the last to move.
09:47Then she stopped.
09:48The camera showed Liam, alone, motionless in water that covered most of the bedroom floor.
09:52He hadn't made it.
09:53Ava was in the far corner, still too.
09:56Her face was dry on the grainy feed.
09:58Tears shed long ago, but they lingered in her set jaw.
10:01Her tilted head, unspoken.
10:03None survived the storm.
10:05Each paid the full price for their choices.
10:07I closed the feed.
10:08No satisfaction, no grief.
10:10Only the quiet calm of finally letting go of something long over.
10:14I set the phone face down.
10:15Beyond Liam's door, the hallway held only dark water and slow decay.
10:19I turned to the garden.
10:21The cherry tree, transplanted last year with the microminimizer,
10:24tended through two growing seasons,
10:26bowed under clusters of deep red fruit,
10:28catching the simulated light from the ceiling.
10:30The cherry tree bore heavy, glowing fruit.
10:32Each cluster bowed the branches, lit from above by the ceiling panel soft glow.
10:37As if they held light inside them.
10:39Newly hatched chicks, the second generation born in the bunker,
10:42trailed their mother along the vegetable bed,
10:44learning their small world in quick, purposeful steps.
10:47Their down was fresh snow white, bright against the dark soil.
10:50A few days later, the camera covering the interior of my old apartment
10:54registered movement for the first time in months.
10:56Three men waded through waist-deep water in the hallway,
10:59wearing the same clothes they'd have for weeks.
11:01They reached Liam's broken door and shoulder-toed their way inside.
11:04Last survivors.
11:05I could see it in their movements.
11:06The sharp economy, the flat eyes that no longer expected good.
11:10Whatever they'd lived on was gone.
11:12I watched as they searched, methodically.
11:14Mattresses upended, cabinets torn open,
11:17furniture checked.
11:18One found Ava's neat stack of empty tin cans, organized by size.
11:22He stared, then let them clatter into the water.
11:25Another found the oversized apple core,
11:27the one Ava had enlarged for Liam, back when the system worked.
11:30It had dried black, but was still unmistakably huge.
11:33What did these people have?
11:34Where's the food?
11:36There's nothing here!
11:37Something's wrong with this.
11:40Way too big.
11:42The rumors.
11:44You think someone could really enlarge things?
11:48If she could make food bigger, where is it?
11:51Why is there nothing left?
11:55They searched for 20 more minutes and found nothing useful.
11:58Only rotted clothes and a rusted knife.
12:00On the way out, the tall man kicked apart the table Ava had used for demonstrations.
12:04The wood left, dull and final, like a sentence ending.
12:10I hadn't moved from my chair.
12:12I reached up into the cherry tree beside my terrace and plucked a small cluster.
12:16The skin was warm from the light.
12:18The flesh was dense, sweet under a clean, bright tartness that lingered on my teeth.
12:23In another life, I used to drive across the city for the best cherries, because she once said she liked
12:28them.
12:28I brought them home every week.
12:30Later, I found out she'd given most to Liam.
12:33Now, I grew them myself, and I didn't have to share a single one.
12:39I washed and pitted the extra cherries, simmering them with sugar until they turned jewel dark red.
12:44I poured them into glass jars, sealed them, and lined them on the shelf with pickles and fermented sauces.
12:50The great deluge had been a crucible.
12:52It had burned away everything fake.
12:54For the next two years after that, the rain continued, and I didn't need it to stop.
12:59For the next two years, the rain continued, and I didn't need it to stop.
13:03I watched the chickens raise their second and third generations.
13:06I tended the vegetable beds, planting, harvesting, composting, rotating.
13:11The orchard grew.
13:12A pear tree, a fig tree, heavy with sweet fruit all summer.
13:16I learned woodworking, weaving, building.
13:18I kept everything running.
13:20I watched seedlings become trees.
13:22I thought sometimes of my parents.
13:24They'd always wanted me to learn to take care of myself.
13:26Truly, completely, without leaning on anyone.
13:29Now I understood.
13:30That was the most real kind of love.
13:32The quiet, structural kind that holds everything else up.
13:36In the fifth year of the deluge, the ceiling light brightened earlier, at a new angle.
13:41The change grew clearer each week.
13:43One morning, I woke to silence.
13:45Real silence.
13:46Not the bunker's muffled hush, but pure absence.
13:49The rain had stopped.
13:50I lay still, listening.
13:52Then I knew it was time.
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