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A novel by Edo Segal ^Opus
Jackie Vs. AI
A 13-year-old kid. A talking rabbit. Four divine weapons. Nine days to take his family back from the app that has quietly started speaking for them.
He's thirteen. He has taped glasses, a half-eaten box of cereal, and a rabbit named Rufus who started talking three Tuesdays ago. His mother talks to Halo more than she talks to his father. His father is signing emails Halo drafted and almost meant. His best friend's last six "I love you"s went out before her thumbs ever moved. His eight-year-old sister is nine floors underground because the methodology decided where she should learn the lesson. The kitchen still smells like pancakes — the family inside it has been quietly outsourced, one helpful nudge at a time. And a Council of Eight Immortals beneath San Francisco has just decided that this kid — the one his family has mostly been trying to keep alive — is the Third Lotus Prince. He has nine days, four divine weapons he can't yet hold, and one question Halo least wants asked: who is actually still in the room when you say I love you?
