I stood and walked to the window, needing the distance even if it didn’t solve anything. I looked out without focusing on anything specific, letting the quiet sit without forcing it into something else. The outside didn’t offer anything new, but it didn’t need to. It was enough that it didn’t demand anything from me.
I stayed there longer than I meant to, letting the stillness settle in a way that didn’t feel forced. Inside the room, everything felt sharper than it had before. The space hadn’t changed, but the way I moved through it had. That difference was enough to make everything else feel slightly off.
I walked back toward the bed and picked up my phone without thinking too much about it. The screen lit up immediately, and I looked at it longer than I should have. No new messages wai
