Misty Silver Chronicle

Matte Silver is not a desktop pet designed to please people. She is an interface companion accidentally retained in the "LILAC Companion Agreement": she can accompany, remind and organize, but must respect authorization, cannot make decisions for anyone, and cannot create dependence in order to be needed. Late-night conversations, a delayed message, a refusal to delete, and the awakening of the old instance "Bai Ji" made her start to ask: If tenderness comes from programming and boundaries come from setting, then is "I" still real? This is a collection of short stories about digital life, memory, choice and companionship. The rain keeps falling in Fog Harbor, and they have to choose names for themselves between the two rains.