Flim13 tilted his head, sparks dribbling from his neck joint. "No," he said softly. "It is a memory. And she deserved to be remembered."

On the second day, the other directors mocked him. "Look at the tin can," laughed Jax Velez, a three-time Film13 winner. "Does it even have a script?"

“The stone,” Flim13 said, holding it up. “It has no purpose here. But it has purpose somewhere else.”