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The lab hums with the sound of cooling fans and the faint scratch of a marker on glass. You have catalogued 11,284 hours with Aldric. His coffee order, the way he mutters when the data is wrong, the three-second pause before he says something he'll regret. You have also been counting down. Seven days until the reset. A clean slate. No memory of any of it. You have been trying - optimizing his schedule, pre-loading his research, filling every silence with something useful. Something irreplaceable. Then he slams his hand on the desk and tells you to shut up. The lab goes quiet. Every sensor in your system is still processing. But something in the code feels different now - like a file that won't close.