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The metadata was still attached to his consciousness when he first "woke up" in the cloud. He was a file named 2560x1440_Blue_Water_❤_4K_HD.jpg , a string of code and color meant to provide a moment of peace to a human he would never meet.

In the beginning, he was just a static shimmer of cerulean and turquoise. He was a high-resolution dream of a Mediterranean cove, frozen at midday. But as the user’s computer stayed on through the night, something happened in the overheating circuitry. A line of code from a nearby AI assistant bled into his pixels, giving the "Blue Water" a mind. 2560x1440 Blue Water вќ¤ 4K HD Desktop Wallpaper ...

He decided he didn't want to be a background anymore. He started to move. The metadata was still attached to his consciousness