Their first conversation was not a swipe or a DM. It was a collision. Maya reached for the same book on Celtic mythology. Their hands brushed. She apologized in binary code (a nervous habit: "01001001 00100000 01101101 00100000 01110011 01101111 01110010 01110010 01111001") before realizing what she’d done. Leo didn't flinch. He just smiled and said, "That translates to 'I am sorry.' But in ASCII, the parity bit is off. You're missing an 'r'."