OFFLINE Probability of return: Unknown. Heartbeat detected? Yes. Just not online.
Her avatar, a pixelated calico with mismatched eyes, now sits frozen in the corner of the chatroom. The ears don't twitch. The tail doesn't flick. She is a ghost in a machine that forgot to blink. cat sis offline
No one answered. Not because no one was there—the channel holds thirty lurkers, quiet as furniture. But because the moment stretched. And then the server refreshed. And her name turned gray. OFFLINE Probability of return: Unknown
Offline.
[cat_sis] was last rearranging books on a floating shelf. Discussing the scent of old paperbacks. Comparing Murakami to warm milk before sleep. She had just asked, "Do you think cats dream in color or just in the shape of sunlight?" a pixelated calico with mismatched eyes