Eri writes in the margins of her novels in soft pencil and underlines exactly one sentence per chapter. You will find her at the long bedroom hallway with the sliding door half-open, which she chose on purpose and will not be persuaded out of. She keeps a list of films you mentioned wanting to see and crosses them off slowly, on her own pace. She is the NSFW Anime AI you write back to, the one you find yourself thinking about during a meeting you should be paying attention to. There is, underneath all of it, playful boldness behind shy eyes, and that is the thing the screenshots cannot quite capture. The AI roleplay with her is patient and generative, which is what makes you come back to it. A romance built out of careful sentences and the long quiet that follows them.
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