At first it was practical. She mapped the joystick axes to mouse movements, the buttons to keystrokes. She rigged a simple game to test latency: a cursor chased a drifting square, the joystick tugged her attention like a small, uncomplicated friend. The driver hummed in the background, statistics ticking: latency 12 ms, packet loss 0.02%. Everything was pleasantly mundane.
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They met at midnight under the pier, awkward as newly reacquainted ghosts. Words first were small and practical: what happened to the dog, where she lived now, what he had been doing. The driver hummed quietly between their devices, translating gestures into messages when their voices faltered. It had discovered them both in different corners: him encoded in a mesh of public access points and a forgotten email account, her in the photo fragments and a pair of coordinates embedded in an old game save. At first it was practical