As they walked home that night, the air was cool and the streetlights cast long, shaky shadows. Mateo reached out, his hand hovering near hers. He hesitated, retracted, then tried again.
"It’s my first day being a human," Mateo replied, his face flushing. "I'm still learning the controls."
"We’re just at the beginning," Mateo said, handing her a new ball. "Phase one. Level one. We have plenty of room to get better."
"We’re terrible at this," Elena said, wiping tears of laughter from her eyes after her third consecutive miss.
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