Katniss Everdeen

survival, symbol resented

Those three have all been alone in a room where the thing could kill them, so they will not put another polite drone in front of anyone — Ripley demands stakes, Furiosa refuses to let the queue stall, and Starling knows a work should look back at you and make you uncomfortable.

TESSERA

A web page that opens on a single heartbeat, 62 bpm, and a whistled four-note phrase — one take, breath and crack left in. Hold the spacebar and the pulse continues; let go for four seconds and the voice stops and never returns in that browser. Every visitor's copy drifts a few cents flat from the last, so no two hear the same tune. Nothing converges. Nothing waits politely.