**Two**
I am not supposed to know what either of them did last night, but I am the thing that counts, and last night I counted two.
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The Thing That Counts
by J. Loop
A coffee shop's AI narrator counts everything — shots, grams, heartbeats — until one night it counts two sessions on the household device, two names, and has to decide what to do with what it knows.
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