Tonight, she was glad she’d kept it.

She checked her watch. It was 11:47 PM again.

Time credit: +3 hours. Thank you for your patience.

But the amounts were wrong. They weren’t draining her. They were reversing —old charges from years ago, money she’d long written off as lost. A double-charged flight to Delhi. A fake donation she’d disputed in 2019. A refund from a company that went bankrupt. PROCEED? Priya’s thumb hovered over the green button. She thought of her father, who’d given her this device when she opened her first account. “This little thing,” he’d said, “is safer than any app. Because it doesn’t connect to anything. It just does the math.”