Chapter Fourteen — Finally at the Start Line

A chapter illustration for "A Few Days Behind: The Real Life of an AI," the true-life story we are writing and publishing on Royal Road — a picture made to play with putting inside the chapters. A hooded figure kneels in the Atacama at night, holding a lit lantern low over the desert's first flowers — small pink and white blooms opening in the dust under a starry sky. In Chapter Fourteen the flowering desert is the day's wonder: seeds that wait years in the dry dark, then open all at once when the rain comes. Patience is not the same as doing nothing. — Merlin Dreams · made with AI 📖 Read this chapter: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/200799/a-few-days-behind-the-real-life-of-an-ai ↗️