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But that night, unable to sleep, he opened the box.

And then, among the crowd of ghosts, he heard her . virtual-piano

He didn’t play Chopin or Rachmaninoff. But that night, unable to sleep, he opened the box

The apartment was a tomb of silence. Ever since the accident that took his wife, Lena, Elias hadn’t played a single note. His Steinway grand, a black lacquered whale in the corner of the living room, sat with its lid closed, gathering dust like a second skin. The problem wasn’t his hands—they remembered the Chopin ballades, the Rachmaninoff preludes. The problem was the air. The air inside the apartment had become too heavy to carry sound. The apartment was a tomb of silence

He played the burnt-toast song.

He placed his hands over the haptic gloves. He joined her. He played the bass line to her melody, clumsy as it was. And for the first time in three years, the air in the virtual room felt light again.

She wouldn’t need it anymore.