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Leo’s thumb hovered over the power button. “Listen to what?”

He tried to close the app. It wouldn’t close. He swiped up, hit the home button, even tried turning off the phone. The screen stayed on Bella’s pixel bedroom. Her mouth stretched into a smile that didn’t reach her eyes.

“How do you know my name?” he whispered. talking bella download

She wasn’t cute. The other “talking” apps had pets or babies with goofy voices. Bella was a girl of about eleven, rendered in jagged polygons, her mouth a little too wide. She stood perfectly still, staring straight through the screen.

Her lips moved a half-second later. “Hello, Leo.” Leo’s thumb hovered over the power button

Leo understood then. He could forward the file. He could delete it—maybe. Or he could keep her, let her talk, let her tap through his microphone, his camera, his life.

“No,” Bella agreed. “I’m a voice. And you just gave me a new mouth.” He swiped up, hit the home button, even

Then his phone screen went black.

“To the things I say. To the things I know.”

“Hello,” Leo said, just to test.