Too Dangerous
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Panel 1
On a keynote stage, Samuel stands sombrely beside a tall draped object behind hazard tape.
Samuel: “Our new model is too dangerous to release.”
He is grave and entirely serious.
Panel 2
The audience erupts. Cameras flash, an investor faints with delight, and a line on the screen shoots straight up.
Token, in the front row, does not cheer.
Panel 3
Token raises a hand politely.
Token: “So nobody gets it?”
Token is relieved.
Panel 4
The drape is gone. The object is a hazard-striped pricing sign behind a red velvet rope: APOCALYPSE TIER, $1,000/mo. A long queue of people in identical hazmat suits snakes out of the hall.
Samuel stands beside the sign, unchanged. Token's hand is still raised.

