Liam was on his bed, Lucid on, scrolling through LucidNet.
The pre-order reactions had settled into their familiar pattern. Post after post of people lamenting four consecutive months of failure, each one finding a slightly different way to describe the same outcome.
Someone had made a thread titled "Month 4 and I remain deviceless. An ongoing tragedy." It had forty thousand replies, most of them a single word: You and us both, brother.
He scrolled through them with a quiet smile.
Then he found the post.
Two confirmation emails. Side by side. One for a Lucid. One for Lucid Air. The timestamp on both was from the same night, minutes apart.
Liam stopped scrolling.
He read the post twice. Then he looked at the emails in the screenshot more carefully, checking the formatting, the domain address, the confirmation codes. They were real. Both of them.
He sat back.
