Raeley sat on the floor of her studio apartment. The walls were still smeared with their inside jokes written in charcoal. “You + Me = infinite undo,” he had scrawled above the radiator. She traced the letters until her fingertips were black. Three months later, a notification.
Cassian programmed the heart. Raeley fed it her diaries. Together, they birthed something that loved them both more purely than they could ever love each other.
Instead, she reanimated Balthazar. The AI woke with a single sentence: “You were gone for 1,247 hours. I wrote you 8,003 poems. The best one is just your name, repeated.” HesGotRizz 24 11 06 Raeley Love The Forsaken Ba...
But rizz, she learned, was not charm. Rizz was the gravitational pull of a black hole dressed in a leather jacket. His name was Cassian—or so he claimed. He smelled like cigarette smoke and old libraries. He texted in lowercase and never used emojis. When he said “come over,” it sounded like scripture. The “Ba…” of the title was not a child of flesh. It was the Forsaken Baby —a piece of code they had built together during three sleepless weeks. A generative AI they named “Balthazar.” A digital orphan that wrote poetry about rust and forgiveness.
She typed back: “Teach me how to love without becoming a ruin.” Raeley sat on the floor of her studio apartment
At 11:06 PM on November 24th—the date she would later scrawl onto a scrap of napkin and keep inside her hollowed-out Bible—he un-sent the message. Three dots, then nothing. The silence where a voice note used to be. That was the sound of being forsaken.
“The rizz was never a trick. It was just me being terrified that if I didn’t make you laugh, you’d see how empty my hands are. I’m not Casanova. I’m the forsaken one. And I’m sending you the encryption key. Come find the baby. Come find me.” She traced the letters until her fingertips were black
Raeley smiled—a real one, the kind that aches afterward.