Ran Offline -

He had forgotten what his own mind sounded like. For the first ten minutes, it had panicked, reaching for a phone that was nothing more than a dark glass brick. But as the silence stretched, settling into the corners of the room like dust, he began to notice things.

The cursor blinked for ten minutes before I realized it wasn’t waiting for me anymore. No loading bar. No spinning wheel of false hope. Just stillness. ran offline