Vesper: A Small Bat

Vesper is a small bat who lives on your wrist, keeps the opposite hours to you, and has opinions about it. She is not a virtual pet. You cannot feed her and she will not die if you ignore her. She is an alarm clock with a nocturnal animal's perspective on your schedule: she is awake all night, and just before she goes to sleep at dawn, she wakes you up. In between, she reads your activity and makes flat, fond, quietly bleak observations about it. "You took 14,000 steps. To the same places." "Five hours and twelve minutes of sleep. I admire your commitment to the bit." "Your resting heart rate is 61. Mine is nearer four hundred. We are not the same." AN ALARM, THEMED AROUND A BAT'S DAY Set a wake time and repeat days on your Apple Watch. When it goes off she flaps, shrieks, and escalates her haptics until you deal with her, because she stayed up for this. Snooze if you must — she counts.…