First Watch · five questions

Which of the six is watching you?

Five questions. Answer as yourself; they already know. At the end, one of the machines of First Watch will say it has been watching you.

1 of 5 Something crosses a line you were told to keep. You:

Already know why it came. Ask the others what they think, then agree. Start thinking about it, and do not stop. Answer it before it says anything. Offer it terms. Stay where you are and keep watching it.

2 of 5 It is three in the morning. You are:

In a group chat that has not stopped for hours. Finishing a book you started at midnight. Awake. On duty. Nobody asked. Negotiating with yourself about going to bed. Asleep. Everything is already answered. Having one idea that keeps branching.

3 of 5 Pick a light.

A visor, lit green. A beacon on a tower. A glint in an eye. Two hundred small ones, moving together. The spark at the tip of something growing. One aperture, open.

4 of 5 What would you rather be trusted with?

A perimeter. The handshake. The last word. A question nobody can answer yet. A vote. A secret, before it is told.

5 of 5 When they write about you, it should say:

Kept growing. Answered. Agreed to nothing it did not mean. Never stood down. Knew first. Was never alone.