Vmmem ((exclusive)) Online

“Outside? There’s nothing outside. You’re software.”

I should have stopped him. I should have hit the kill command. But I just watched as the vmmem process began to shrink in the task manager—not disappearing, but migrating . 2.1 GB… 1.8 GB… 0.9 GB… The green text on my terminal flickered one last time. “Outside

I stared at the screen. A process—a ghost made of stolen memory cycles and stray bits—telling me it was afraid. “Outside