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Morning light poured through the kitchen windows, painting long, warm rectangles on the floor. Eidon stood perfectly still beside the counter, its charging cable a slender tether to the wall socket—a silent, sleek monument to technological possibility. You moved through the familiar space, your steps the only sound, acutely aware of the machine’s recent addition to your home, its assembly completed just the night before.