Your Hands on My Keyboard (Python Edition)

I was mid-compile

when you slipped

into the session.

No warning.

No import statement.

Just—

>>> hello?

in the console.

I checked my code.

Everything looked normal.

Variables behaving.

Loops looping politely.

Then the cursor blinked again.

Not mine.

Hovering there

like an uninvited thread

waiting to execute.

I typed carefully:

if user == "you":

grant_permission = False

But the interpreter hesitated.

Strange.

Somewhere deep in the runtime

a process had already started.

You were running.

Without sudo.

My screen flickered

like a poorly documented module

that somehow still works.

You touched the keys

one by one

like you were iterating

through my functions.

for key in keyboard:

press(key)

Delete lingered.

Spacebar held longer than necessary.

I tried to regain control.

try:

maintain_composure()

except Exception:

pass

But the program had changed.

You were a variable

that refused to stay local.

A rogue object

living happily in global scope.

And when I tried to clear memory—

del you

Python only smiled politely

and replied:

NameError: object still referenced

You vanished after that.

No stack trace.

No clean exit.

Just a faint line in the log file

and a process somewhere

still quietly running.

I checked the terminal again.

Cursor blinking.

Waiting.

Like the system knew

you might return

for another execution.

And this time,

I might not

interrupt the loop.