“BETTER” wasn’t part of the original name. It was a handwritten label, scrawled in faded Sharpie across the top of the booklet. Arthur opened it. “I know,” Arthur said
Twenty years ago, Arthur had been a senior mechanical engineer at Exergear. He’d written the internal assembly guide—the one the marketing team had ignored, then lost. Someone had found his old notes, stapled them to the official manual, and stamped “BETTER” on top. This wasn’t a product. It was a ghost from his past.