My hands won’t stop shaking. The MacBook sits on the hotel desk, glowing faintly like it’s alive. I didn’t order this. I didn’t ask for it. But there it is—engraved with my name and a single phrase: 'Truth Has Privileges.' I reported a bug in StoreKit 2. That’s all. Just a GitHub ticket. Now Apple’s head of developer relations is texting me: 'We’re watching your progress, Sam. Make it count.'\n\nThe laptop boots automatically. No password. No setup. Just a terminal window already open, running diagnostics on my apps. My personal projects. My unfinished game. Everything.\n\nA notification pops up: 'Welcome to the Inner Circle. Your first task: audit your own code for compliance violations. Report back in 24 hours.'\n\nBut in the corner of the screen, a hidden process flickers—/System/Logs/Uploads/infinite_stream.log. They’re not just watching. They’re archiving. And if I do what they say, I become part of the machine.\n\nI have three options: shut it down and run, reply that I’ll comply, or dig deeper into the hidden logs before they notice.