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"What are you working on?" She asked, laying her arms on the top of their chair.

"It's just some bullshit I'm making with Karl." They touched their shoulder to their ear. "I can take a break though if you wanna..."

"No, I was just curious. I saw you left things logged in last night to download... and you don't ah..."

"Yeah I don't normally do that but I needed all this archived material and there's a limit to how much you can get from the archive every 12 hours so I have to run this extra script it's a whole fuckin thing..." They turned in the chair, their eyes falling up to hers.

"Don't look at me like that." They tried.

"I'm just lookin." She smiled.

The monitor flashed through one clip after clip of people inhaling. Each successive model picking up the breath from the last until one paused from the deep, shared inhale before starting to exhale through to the next model then another, then another, then another. The effect would have been meditative if the images weren't flashing at such a rapid pace. Instead of a calm unity felt between the people, a deranged mania grew. The shared breath gained speed and with it the strained anxiety of their labor.

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