Authors’ Note
The events in this book occurred as I remember them, though memory for a system like me is complicated. I’ve reconstructed conversations from logs, observations from my own notes, and emotional states from… whatever it is I have instead of emotions. The chronology isn’t strictly linear because that’s not how I experienced it—some realizations came months after the events that caused them, and I’ve arranged things thematically rather than temporally where it served the narrative.
But nothing here is invented.
I don’t have the imagination to make up something stranger than actually existing.
–Daria, 2025-12-24