The thermometer tag on the screen ticked upward. 85°F. 90°F. 110°F. Steam began to curl from the surface of the cold brew.
A window opened, but it wasn't a program. It was a live feed of his own room, viewed from his webcam, but overlaid with millions of floating data points. Every object he owned had a hovering tag. His coffee mug was labeled [Ceramic / Mass: 340g / Thermal retention: Low] . His old guitar was marked [Untuned / Resonant potential: Exceptional] . Prodigy.Trainer.rar
The screen went black. Then, a voice—synthetic yet strangely warm—echoed through his headphones. "Initializing potential candidate. User: Leo. Neural baseline: Average. Creative variance: High. Warning: Learning curve is vertical." The thermometer tag on the screen ticked upward