Her hand trembled over the mouse. She double-clicked it.

Boris FX V10.1.0.577 had not rendered an image. It had rendered a memory. And somewhere between the gears, the glider, and the kiss, her father finally came home.

Bisous. Planeur. Gears.

Elise had tracked the glider’s wing flaps, applied the optical flow, and layered a chromatic aberration that made the brass gears weep amber light. But every time she hit render, the process crashed at 99.97%.