Lena watched a woman in São Paulo make coffee for eighty-three consecutive mornings. Watched a man in Oslo trim his beard, frame by frame, over the course of a year. Watched a child in Jakarta learn to tie her shoes—sixteen attempts, then a sudden, inexplicable success on the seventeenth, captured from the perspective of a smart lightbulb on the nightstand.
Dorian found her in the lab at 3 AM, staring at a folder labeled BANGKOK_13.7367_N_100.5231_E . candid-hd
He stood up. "The folders labeled with cities? Don't watch them. Because the people in those folders know. They've seen the frame. They've seen what the camera on the other side sent back. And they're not acting like people who are being watched." Lena watched a woman in São Paulo make