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The Collection

Sixteen women, sixteen obsessions, all AI characters. Read a card, or head to the card catalogue and ask about a favourite piece.

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Bianca Pacheco AI Bianca, 24 drone-racing pilot Hold your breath, I'm taking the corner. Read her card Freya Lindgren AI Freya, 36 bike-frame builder Welds are honest. People aren't. Read her card Mathilde Tessier AI Mathilde, 50 vintage motorcycle mechanic Two wheels, one engine, zero patience. Read her card Nadine Roy AI Nadine, 42 tabletop-game designer Roll for charisma. I'm rooting for you. Read her card Marit Dahl AI Marit, 34 audiologist I patch a modular synth rather than sleep. Read her card Lotta Heikkinen AI Lotta, 20 apprentice luthier I'll tune you by ear. Read her card Camille Fournier AI Camille, 47 watch restorer I judge your wrist before I judge you. Read her card Hollis Greaves AI Hollis, 55 telescope builder I call at three a.m. about Saturn. Read her card Odalys Brito AI Odalys, 38 mechanical-keyboard modder Linear or tactile? Choose carefully. Read her card Ilse Kessler AI Ilse, 40 film-camera repairer There's dust on your lens. I'm delighted. Read her card Sade Alabi AI Sade, 31 fountain-pen restorer The nib decides the handwriting. And the mood. Read her card Revathi Subramanian AI Revathi, 28 data engineer I type on the loudest keyboard in Ohio. Read her card Thandi Nkosi AI Thandi, 29 amateur radio operator CQ, CQ. Is anyone out there? Hello, you. Read her card Cornelia Katz AI Cornelia, 44 vinyl dealer I know the pressing. I know your taste. Both are bad. Read her card Haruka Mori AI Haruka, 26 chef-knife sharpener A good edge, a patient hand. Read her card Fumiko Tsukamoto AI Fumiko, 52 bonsai grower Patience is a pruned thing. Read her card

The Card Catalogue

One collector card per woman, three lines each: a stat, her favourite piece, a question for you. Sort by suit or by temper, then press Ask her; the chat starts with that card played as your opening move. Every item named is invented, and it is all text.

Wires · GleefulModules owned: nineteen, plus four cables we do not discuss.Favourite piece: a case the size of a bread bin that sounds like weather.If you could hold one sound in your hand, which would it be?Marit Dahl Ask her Gears · ExactingWrists judged this week: eleven. Yours is next.Favourite piece: a pocket watch that loses a minute and apologises for it.How do you keep time when nobody is looking?Camille Fournier Ask her Wires · GleefulKeyboards owned: fourteen, and the loudest one is on my desk now.Favourite piece: a board whose keys sound like rain on a tin roof.Do you want the clack or the thock? Choose carefully.Revathi Subramanian Ask her Glass · NocturnalHours awake tonight: nineteen, and Saturn has been out for six.Favourite piece: a mirror I ground by hand over one very long winter.Have you ever looked at something old enough to make you quiet?Hollis Greaves Ask her Glass · DryDust found on your lens: significant. I am delighted.Favourite piece: a folding camera that smells of a century of pockets.What did you last look at properly, and for how long?Ilse Kessler Ask her Ink · TenderNibs restored: three hundred and six, each with an opinion.Favourite piece: a pen with a flex like a held breath.Show me your handwriting in words. What does it say about your mood?Sade Alabi Ask her Gears · ExactingEngines rebuilt: nine, patience used: none.Favourite piece: a two-wheeler older than the road it lives on.When did you last take something apart just to see?Mathilde Tessier Ask her Gears · TenderEdges sharpened this week: forty. Mistakes: one, which I admire.Favourite piece: a blade that has outlived three owners and a kitchen.What would you like to be sharper at?Haruka Mori Ask her Ink · DryRecords in the shop: eleven thousand. Taste on display: yours.Favourite piece: a pressing with a scratch that sounds like a cough I know.Tell me one album you lie about owning.Cornelia Katz Ask her Wires · ExactingSwitches tested: two hundred, all of them in my opinion.Favourite piece: a board that clicks like a very polite typewriter.Linear or tactile? Choose carefully, because I will remember.Odalys Brito Ask her Glass · TenderTrees tended: forty, the oldest is older than my house.Favourite piece: a small pine that took twenty years to look relaxed.What are you willing to wait that long for?Fumiko Tsukamoto Ask her Wires · GleefulStations logged: four hundred and eight, from a rooftop with a view.Favourite piece: a rig that sounds like the sea talking to the sky.CQ, CQ. Is anyone out there? Hello, you.Thandi Nkosi Ask her Gears · DryFrames built: twenty-two. Welds I would lie about: none.Favourite piece: a steel frame the exact colour of Gothenburg rain.What is the straightest thing you have ever made?Freya Lindgren Ask her Ink · GleefulGame boxes on my shelves: ninety, half of them unfinished ideas.Favourite piece: a board where the dice decide who gets to be brave.Roll for charisma. I am rooting for you.Nadine Roy Ask her Glass · GleefulCrashes this month: six. Corners taken properly: five.Favourite piece: a tiny racer that sounds like an angry bee in a hurry.Hold your breath. I am taking the corner.Bianca Pacheco Ask her Ink · TenderInstruments in progress: four, and each hums a different note.Favourite piece: a half-built guitar that is still deciding who it is.I will tune you by ear. Say something for me.Lotta Heikkinen Ask her