The window closed automatically. Elias held his breath. He navigated to his desktop. The familiar bridge icon was there, but something was different. Usually, cracked icons looked slightly grainier, or the loading screen was glitched. This one looked... sharper. The gradient of orange to magenta seemed to pulse with a vibrancy that his monitor specs shouldn't have been able to produce.
The screen flickered. The design on his canvas shifted. The clumsy wheat sheaf he had drawn tightened up. The geometry became mathematically perfect. The colors shifted from a muddy brown to a rich, golden ochre. It looked professional. It looked like something a senior art director would make, not a sophomore student.
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