Your heart kicks.
"You didn't abandon me. You abandoned yourself. I'm not a comic. I'm the part of you that still believes in making something from nothing. And you locked me in a PDF named 'Free Download' because you were too ashamed to even name me properly."
But you hear him anyway.
You stare at your desktop. The PDF icon sits there, unremarkable. 2.4 megabytes. Created today.
The real world.
You scroll faster.
The balloon is full now. Overflowing. Letters spilling down the margin like a scream.