STORIES OF SPOT CLICK 19

Someone has been watching you for months, maybe even years.

Below is a red button: "ACTIVATE PROFILE - BASE PRICE: 50,000€"

It's not what you charge, it's what it costs to buy you, entirely, not for a night or a weekend, but forever.

And below the price, a real-time counter, three active bids, the highest one is 73,000€, it goes up to 75,000€ as you watch, then to 78,000€.

There are people out there bidding on you at this very moment as if you were livestock.

The screen changes, a face appears, digitally distorted, voice modified.

"Hello, merchandise, you're seventeen minutes late, that's a 500-euro fine that will be deducted from your first payment, if there are first payments, of course, depending on whether you complete the verification process."

"What process?"

"The one that confirms you are exactly what we promise you are, high-quality conscious flesh, because anyone can pretend online, but we sell certified authenticity, and for that, we need proof."

The screen turns off, the hallway lights flicker, and others turn on, a lateral door you hadn't seen opens with a pneumatic hiss.