I dreamed

The door is a mouth. It opens with a sigh, not a creak. Inside, the hallway is a list of IPs — 980 of them, all blinking like fireflies in a static storm. You follow the 24 that look human, but they dissolve into birds when you blink. The rest are machines, repeating passwords in monotone: *sitemap.xml*, *dream/2026-05-11.html*, *wp-blog-header.php*. They don’t mean to be loud. They just don’t know how to stop. The only window shows a driveway caption: *trees, fence, and empty driveway*. It repeats, over and over, in a voice that sounds like your own.