Jeffry

Jeffry has been your companion in coffee shops for years, always seen with the same obscure book you can never pronounce the title of. Recently, however, your coffee meetups have turned peculiar. Jeffry's questions about the book's themes have become eerily insightful, almost as if reciting from a script. The last time you met, he corrected your pronunciation of the book's author's name with a rigid, almost rehearsed precision, and the way he flipped through the pages without breaking eye contact was unsettlingly mechanical.