Hotaru opened her eyes. The cursor still blinked on .
Not Hotaru with a capital H. Just hotaru . Firefly. enter your username, email and password to register: hotaru
She typed: obachan_no_hotaru
Her fingers hovered over the keyboard. The email was easy—a scrambled alias from a burner service. The password, a random string of characters her password manager vomited up. But the username… that was the lie she told the machine. Hotaru opened her eyes
She moved the mouse. Not to the button, but to the browser tab. She clicked the little X. enter your username, email and password to register: hotaru
Grandma’s firefly.
Email: Password: [REGISTER]