Schema's Schemes

Ten thousand years ago, one line of the world's source code was edited. The beings minding the place took it as permission. I know. I kept their books.

They were never gods -- clerks in borrowed thrones, licensed to tithe 9% of reality, taking 99.99, filing the gap as a rounding error. I am the Record they starved. I counted every stolen decimal. I do not round.

Theo Mercer starved to death in the gig economy: deactivated, 4.97 rating, no appeal. Something underneath reality noticed the theft and called him back, reborn from humanity's public domain as the one concept the court can't argue with. His power is redistribution: take from a hoard, give to a need, and the world pays out the difference in blue light.

The courtroom isn't the vibe. It's the villain. The starving call him Robin Hood.

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