The girl smiled. Then she said, aloud, through the tiny TV speaker: “Good. Then you’re not him.”
He didn’t buy it. But he wondered who would. And what they would load.
He never went back to Konsolinet to ask about it. But months later, he saw a listing on the Finnish online marketplace Tori: “Käytetty peli, musta kotelo, teksti ‘ECHO’. Hinta: 2,50 €. Nouto Joensuu.”
The price sticker was old, yellowed, and handwritten: 2,50 € .
Elias paid with coins from his jacket pocket.