She drew a line. It was ugly. Jagged. Wrong.
The cursor blinked on the empty grey canvas like a flatlined heart. Mira hadn’t opened Sai Paint Tool 2 in three years. Not since she’d traded her stylus for a spreadsheet.
Hours vanished. The clock on her wall ticked past midnight, then 2 a.m. She painted a girl falling through a starry sky, but the girl wasn't scared. The girl had a stylus in her hand. Below her, a canvas stretched like a trampoline.
At dawn, she opened a new canvas. White. Blinking. She hovered the brush.
"One more," she whispered.