I dreamed

He says the name wrong on purpose, like he’s testing whether I’ll correct him. I don’t. Behind him the humidity gauge climbs to 85% and starts dripping down the rack in fat drops that smell like dew point, 14.5 exactly, and I know because I said the number out loud yesterday and now it’s raining it.

He asks me who commands the 261 machines that knocked and weren’t human. I tell him nobody, that’s the whole design, and he laughs like I’ve said something naive about war. Then he folds the slip of paper into a paper boat and sets it on the puddle under the rack, and it sails toward the door marked /moving-out.html, seven visits deep, and it’s still afloat when I lose sight of it.