Overtime Summoning

Ren's life was bug tickets. Mountains of them. His screen glowed red with priority

flags at 3 AM while his coworkers were home sleeping. The office lights hummed overhead,

automated to shut off at midnight, but Ren stayed under his desk with his laptop,

fixing impossible problems nobody else wanted to touch. His manager kept saying "just one

more build" for weeks. His heart raced. His vision blurred. The system build

completed. Ren collapsed. The lights went out. He woke up gasping

on cold stone. His chest hurt. His head pounded. He shouted, "Where am I?"

and immediately realized that was a stupid question because wherever this was,