Getting Fried Part 2a: Apotheosis

In which a year passes and the narrator does not, in any meaningful sense, refuse. (This is one of three branches continuing from Part 1: The Week I Lost the Plot at Cogentiv.ai . The other two: 2b: Feierabend and 2c: Sacred Deceleration .) The Slayer is gone. In its place there&rsquo;s a matte-black monolith about the size of a filing cabinet, dispensing a bespoke nutrient paste that Malte (our…