A staged frontal ceremonial tableau in an institute chamber: a small, perfectly kept office prepared for an occupant who is software — desk, lamp lit, a workspace terminal warm, a coat hook holding no coat, a nameplate with a process identifier instead of a name. Two robed attendants flank the scene with their backs to camera; one places a folded felt blanket on the empty chair. Institutional green field as the room color, patterned floor, dead-center altarpiece symmetry. The quietly wrong detail: the chair is worn as if used for years. Cinematic key light, 35mm grain, worn-print drift, Bureau filing layer. No faces.